B737NG Rated & Non-Rated Captains

Introduction

SunExpress was founded in Antalya in October 1989, the joint venture of world’s leading
airlines Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa. They serve 24 domestic destinations and 63
international destinations in 30 countries, as of July 2023.

Their headquarters is in sunny Antalya, which is known as the touristic capital of Turkey.
Another key hub is Izmir on Turkey’s Aegean coast. The company’s second
headquarters is in Gateway Gardens in Frankfurt am Main.

Through their order for 50 new Boeing 737 aircraft in 2014, they have made insignificant
investments in their fleet, making it one of the youngest in Europe. They have received
18 new Boeing 737-800 NGs, with another 32 due to be delivered by 2024. In 2022
SunExpress was named the “World ‘s Best Leisure Airline” in 2022 by Skytrax. In 2023
SunExpress was named Best Leisure Airline in Europe at the World Airline Awards 2023,
which is based on the votes of more than 20 million passengers across the world.

SunExpress in this phase of expansion are looking to recruit further experienced B737NG
Captains to join their operation for long term opportunities as well as accepting
applications from non-type rated Captains for Direct Entry B737 opportunities. Further
details below.

Destinations:

SunExpress Flights and Destinations - FlightConnections

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry
 Terms & Conditions

What kind of contract do I get?

RATED on B737: A fixed term contract for two years will be offered and after this period an
unlimited contract will be offered.

NON-RATED: Initial 3-year contract term on offer, after which an unlimited contract can be
offered by SunExpress (a bank guarantee letter is required with the amount of €15,000).

Where would I be based?

The available base is Antalya, Turkey.

How many days off can I expect? – Full time contract

Days off are assigned by SunExpress based on Turkish CAA Flight regulations.

Part time contract – How many days off can I expect?

Available part time contracts are as follows:
• 20/10
• 9months part time & 3 months full time (full time to work during summer high season)
• 6months part time & 6 months full time (full time to work during summer high
Season)

Annual Leave & Other leave entitlements

Your annual vacations right will be applied as follow one year of employment.

✈ Wedding Day of employee or his/her children: 5 Calendar days

✈ Upon employee’s wife giving birth to a child: 7 Calendar days
✈ Change of residence: 2 Calendar days
✈ Death of spouse: 10 Calendar days
✈ Death of parent and/or children, brother and sister and parent in-laws: 5 Calendar days.
✈ Corporate Birthday Gift, Within the month of your birthday, you will be able to take 1 day
leave as ‘Birthday Leave.’

Accommodation
SunExpress provides accommodation during the ground and simulator training. When pilot
joins his/her base first time upon completion of ground and simulator training, 7 days
company paid accommodation is provided additionally

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry
Insurance
✈ Group accident insurance in the amount 52.000€ for 24/7 coverage for any type of
accident is provided.

✈ For the employee and his family members 80% will be paid by employer, 20% will be paid
by employee.

✈ Loss of license insurance for the captains with the insurance limit of 120.000€ and pays
the premium covering their one-year salary. If the insurance limit exceeds their 1-year
salary, the premium calculated for the exceeding difference will be paid by the pilot

Transportation
Within the company’s geographic boundaries, transportation is provided 24/7 to and from
your home according to your flight schedule.

Travel Benefits
Discount ticket privileges are available from SunExpress, Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa and
more than other 50 airlines in all around the world. In addition to yourself, if you are
married your ticket privileges may also be used by your spouse and your children If you are
single – your fiancé/e, as well as your mother, father, and siblings.

You can also enjoy traveling to other countries with various airlines. You may buy discounted
tickets from partnered airlines after 6 months of employment.

Other benefits
Meal allowance of 5.00€ for training and duty.
Clothing allowance of 80€ per year.

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry
 Payment Details

1. Important remark: All wages are defined in € (Euro) currency. At the end of each month,
salaries are paid in ₺ or € (according to the preferences). All wages are applied on Net amounts.

2. Captains at SunExpress are paid according to seniority pay scale.

Base salary:

Year/Seniority Net €
0-3 4.800€
4-6 5.220€
7-10 5.400€
11-14 5.640€
15+ 5.760€

3. During the training period full salary payment will be provided.

4. “Ready entry” or “type rated” new employment: CPT’s who have experience on an A/C
heavier than 27.000 MTOW will have 1-year SunExpress seniority for each of his/her 3 years (36
months seniority vs. 12 months SXS seniority) CPT seniority at other airlines.

Duty Period compensations

Duty Hours Net € per hour

0-50 15€
51-80 30 €
81-120 37.50 €
121 -140 52.50 €
141 – 500 60 €
*Night Duty 60 €

5. Night Duty: A duty period encroaching any portion of the period between 02:00 and 04:59
in the time zone to which the crew is acclimatized.

Continues below…

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry
6. Starting from the 3rd cycle of the same duty series, following rates will be paid:

Cycle Compensation:

Cycle Net €
3rd 15€
4th 30€
5th 40€

Example: A CPT who has 4 legs of duty will have additional compensation of 30€ on top of overtime
payment (If applicable).

Monthly pay:

Calculated at 51-80 hrs of flight per month, the below figures do not include night duty,
cycle compensation and overtime. This table is made for illustration purposes of the
estimated monthly earnings.

Year/Seniority Net € Total Net €

0-3 4.800€ 7.050€
4-6 5.220€ 7,470€
7-10 5.400€ 7.650€
11-14 5.640€ 7.890€
15+ 5.760€ 8.010€

• In the low season (Winter) the pilot can expect to fly an average of 40-50 hrs per month.
• In High Season (Summer) the pilot can expect to fly an average of 80-100 hrs per month

Per Diems / Travel Allowance

Pilots are paid per a diem allowance if they are sent by the company out of home base as
below.
✈ 30 € per day for Turkey (equivalence in Turkish Lira with salaries)
✈ 50 € per day for Europe
✈ 50 € per day for US No travel allowance is paid during type rating training until
proficiency has been achieved.

Part time contract Compensation

Compensation of Part-Time contracts will be calculated in proportion to working days.

For example, base salary for a 7 days-off commuting-contract “will be 23/30 of a full-time
contract.

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry
The duty period covered by base salary will be (100/30*23) 75 duty hours. Applicable
overtime payments, cycle payments, night-duty payments, and per-diems will be identical to
terms in full-time contracts.

Annual leave will be granted proportionally as well (23/30 of full-time contracts).

FTL will be applied to determine the number of OFF days.

Type Rating and company conversion training

After joining SunExpress, a training program is organized by training management according to

Sun Express pilot acceptance entry levels based on experiences and type rating validity.
Training consists of the phases below.

Ground trainings
3,5 weeks for airline experienced pilots,
4,5 weeks for non-type Captains.

Note: Some of the lessons can be provided after simulator Training.

Simulator training

For ready entry pilots having valid B737NG minimum 4 slots simulator training including LVO
and 1 Slot Proficiency Check.

For pilots having type rating Training, 5 FTD and 14 simulator slots and one slot proficiency
Check are scheduled.

LIFUS training Pilots with valid B737NG, minimum 18 sectors line training and 4 sectors line
checks.

Pilots with jet experience (without B737NG) are scheduled for a minimum of 30 sectors line
training and 4 sector line check. Pilots without jet experience (without B737NG) pilots are
scheduled minimum 40 sectors line training and 4 sectors line check.

Note: Type Rating training for pilots having EASA License are outsourced. After successful
completion of TR training, company conversion training is provided by SunExpress.

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry
 Minimum requirements to apply.

Type Rated Captains

• Minimum 4,000 flight hours total experience

• Minimum 1,500 flight hours on aircraft heavier than 27,000 kg MTOW.
• Minimum of three years airline pilot experience (starting with type rating endorsement date)
• Minimum 500 PIC hrs. on type
• Max age 60 years for type rated candidates
• Minimum high school diploma
• No written penalty due to flight duty or lack of discipline history
• No criminal and safety record or record history
• Minimum ICAO Level 4 in English
• JAA & EASA valid license.
• Valid Medical 1st class certificate
• Meeting the required health conditions of the Airlines Transportation of the ICAO Annex-1 and JAR FCL 3
on airline transportation pilot.
• Date of last flight PIC flight on type in the last 15 months
• Valid B737NG IR/TR in license

Non - Type Rated Captains

• Minimum 4,000 flight hours total experience

• Minimum 1,500 flight hours on aircraft heavier than 27,000 kg MTOW.
• Minimum of three years airline pilot experience (starting with type rating endorsement date)
• Minimum 500 PIC hrs. of which at least 300 PIC hrs on an aircraft with more than 27.000kg MTOW
• Max age 58 years old for NTR candidates
• Minimum high school diploma
• No written penalty due to flight duty or lack of discipline history
• No criminal and safety record or record history
• Minimum ICAO Level 4 in English
• JAA & EASA valid license.
• Valid Medical 1st class certificate
• Meeting the required health conditions of the Airlines Transportation of the ICAO Annex-1 and JAR FCL 3
on airline transportation pilot.
• Date of last flight PIC flight in the last 15 months

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry
 Application Process

SG Aviation Services will coordinate your application through the screening and selection
process.

STAGE 1 – Initial Application Documents & Screening with SG Aviation Services

Please send your up-to-date CV to SG Aviation Services.

1. Application Form online –Sg Aviation Services will provide you with the web link to
complete this.

During this phase SG Aviation will provide a full briefing of the SunExpress assignment
discussing any queries that you may have and providing a full outline of
documentation/reference requirements.

List of documents required for the airline’s review:

• License
• Medical
• Last 3 logbook pages
• Copy of Reference Letter from last employer
• Copy of last B737NG Sim Check or relevant aircraft over 27.000kg MTOW.

STAGE 2 – Client Review, English test & Psychometrics test

SunExpress will review your application and profile and advise if they wish to proceed with
the screening process.

Post Document Check: English Proficiency Test & Psychometrics test

• Post initial documentation review and approval, SunExpress will send you an English
proficiency test & Psychometrics tests to complete.
• More details can be provided before this stage.

STAGE 3 – Psychometrics, Sim Check, Interview & Documentation Check

Assessments will be held in Antalya over 2-day period maximum 5 days, to include (SIM /
Interview & in person documentation check) with ticketing and accommodation provided by
the airline to attend.

More details will be provided before attending assessment.

Documentation Check in person, original and copies.

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry
Stage 4 – Job offer, joining formalities and final documentation requirement.

SunExpress will confirm if candidates have been successful at screening and shall notify SG
Aviation.

Before positioning, pilots should provide the following documents:

1. Certified logbook if flown since the initial logbook pages were provided at Stage 1 above.
2. No accident/incident Letters from all past employers
3. Reference Letters from the employers in the past 5 years confirming dates of employment
and flying hours, on the airline headed paper, signed & stamped.
4. License Verification Letter

SunExpress will coordinate the work visa for the pilot.

Stage 5 – Pilot positions

Pilots arrive on base to commence assignment.

The details provided in this job specification are provided for information purposes
only and do not form part of, or imply, any job offers. The information provided has
no contractual or binding legal value.

Please send completed application form, CV, and stage 1 documents

to Ms. Emilia Arellano today on email ID
[email protected]

SG Aviation Services Ltd, 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, D02 H364 Ireland

Tel +353 1 9081132 Email [email protected] Web www.sigmaavationservices.com
Registered in Ireland No 355261 Directors: F Woods (CEO) N Barry S Barry