DYNAMIC Airways announced yesterday that 12 Guyanese have been selected for Flight Attendant training overseas.
Captain Gerald Gouveia, Managing Director of the Roraima Group of Companies, explained that his company participated in, and facilitated, the recruitment process of hiring the 12 Guyanese.
“From a group of more than 400 applicants, Dynamic Airways selected a batch of 12 Guyanese to be trained. Six of these newly hired persons will depart on September 25 to begin training in Miami,” he disclosed.
This training, he noted, will last between three and four weeks, and at its conclusion, the trained flight attendants will return to join the existing group of Guyanese flight attendants.
Dynamic Airways presently employs 25 Guyanese, 18 of whom are ‘active flight attendants’. The first six Guyanese, inclusive of one male, were introduced to the media on Tuesday, even as the airline boasted of selecting the most capable and qualified applicants for training.
Human Resource Manager of Roraima Airways, Glennis Archer, explained that the panel that had interviewed the selectees included aviation specialists, human resources experts and officials of Dynamic Airways. She said that in conducting interviews and assessments, strict adherence to the criteria, including academic qualifications, were applied to ensure all the applicants had an equitable chance of securing the position.
“These finalists demonstrated a high level of professionalism, academia, and the potential to be exceptional ambassadors of Guyana”, Archer commented.
In January of this year, 9 flight attendants started to ply the Georgetown to New York route. In June 2014, some 400 Guyanese turned up at the Roraima Duke Lodge hotel in Kingston, Georgetown to be interviewed for the post of flight attendants, after the air service provider had announced that it would be commencing operations in Guyana.
Of the 400 interviewed, 50 were shortlisted, 25 of who commenced two weeks of training in the United States.
Captain Gouveia also declared that Dynamic Airways plans to introduce a cadet pilot programme wherein Guyanese pilots would be trained to fly the Boeing 767, and would also be given opportunity to be inducted into the pilot fleet at the airline. (Rebecca Ganesh)
