Available airline companies in Senegal used to be low cost type of air transport service connecting destinations within and outside of this country, having means to allow both passengers and cargo transportations to other international airports, make possible for pilot jobs to be available and applicable through company websites or direct visit during a time of hiring, airplanes are some of them under private ownership of some people or companies available of different kind include those which helps graduate pilots to get started with building of flying experience, headquarter is found in the capital city of this country and available companies include;
: Air Senegal
: Transair
Current hiring is not good at all because there is no enough airplanes and companies in this country to consider hiring experts from foreign countries, the ones found to operate some routes use to request qualifications to any new applicants include citizens who are given priority over other applicants, and they are preferred to have experience on type of airplane they are about to fly make possible to make a continuation of what has been a reason to continue with a whole process of finding ways to work as a pilot, and during a time of an interview it is a common practice to companies based in Senegal to ask for original documents of past training and qualifications,
Company rules use to change according to operations of routes that are under ownership of airline, duties are well analyzed by each pilot contract that is used to be signed in the beginning of an entire process of finding means to assist anyone with better decision making process, estimated earnings for pilots in this country is good with monthly payments that comes from daily flight operations, there is breaks in between and holidays that anyone is able to take as a result of working for a reason of finding positions that are well controlled to enable a whole process successful of operating routes and carrying out of normal maintenance service to ensure airplanes are always safe,
Civil Aviation Authority of Senegal is an approved one under ICAO regulations implementing some of rules and regulations of air transportation similar to other member states countries, and a pilot in this country should expect to get some of service such as license conversion and renewal but unfortunately there is no application for a pilot license include higher qualifications because there is no professional pilot schools that are able to give training to a pilot into an airline standard, a whole department of aviation is always based in this sector able to assist air transport with means to keep a good understandings of what it takes to continue working effectively,
Work permit used to be a reason of finding permission to work as a foreigner in Senegal this is always relating to some of companies that are current having some reasons to hire an expert from another nation to assist current staff or group of pilots gain more experience whenever there is a need for that, and an application is needed prior to commence any work include a travel visa which show an approval to continue with that work after arrival and then later to apply for a work permit when that visa is expire, usually there is a government policy that monitor anyone who is a foreigner under immigration department in ministry of foreign and home affairs of Senegal,
Employment rates for pilots is low because there is no frequency hiring for some positions that pilots are looking on across the internet and in some of companies based in this country, usually to start a job as an airline pilot there must be some higher qualifications already obtained by a pilot include type rating and airline transport pilot license that make anyone competent over other candidates provided with means to assist an entire process of finding a pilot job, whenever there is a company about to hire new pilots there is a great potential of secure a new position on time make possible to have means to assist an entire process of applying for a pilot job,
Hiring seasons use to change based on routes and amount of passengers who make a company active, the more it operate the more it is likely to expand and purchase more number of airplanes, even hiring for pilots use to be good, in this country at the end of the year is a proper time to consider a hiring season has come, because some of pilots use to continue with other airlines while current ones use also to retire or terminate their contracts because of many reasons, this is a great chance to keep on looking for a place to build flying experience on some type of airplanes in order to get enough qualifications to apply for future works anywhere with a need to fly an airplane,
Expected routes that any pilot employed should expect comes from both regional and international routes that connect flights to Senegal from outside, that used to depend on type of airline company a pilot is employed, and most of them are having official websites with all routes well stated that a pilot should expect to have when planning to continue with means to advance a career into a more professional way knowing exactly what to expect prior to start a job, it is important to know that there are some of routes are being operated according to seasons that make possible to deal with passengers and cargo transportation in a short duration of time only,
Possible changes that a pilot can make use to depend on routes about to fly some are really not interested to fly to some countries and in that case use to make a request for changes to routes that they prefer that seems to have some advantages of visiting a family when done with job instead of sleeping in a hotel, even when a contract has come to an end there is a way to apply for a different company in the same way as the first application process with a lot of advantages for a second time when having more flying hours already accumulated on some type of airplanes that use to add an overall curriculum vitae to a pilot during an interview there is a chance to get more priority,
Conclusion on how to get started with a career in Senegal as a pilot is to have at least a commercial pilot license because that being a latest type of document to use when having future plans to work even for airline companies later after pass additional courses from a flight school, private pilot license is acceptable but from some of small airplane operators to act as an assistance pilot without monthly payments to expect from a work about to be done, since then some of additional qualifications are used to be needed when upgrading from one position to another or when changing from one type of airplane to another which demand extra training courses to complete,