Camair-co's search for Sales and Marketing Director: Another Francophone successful failure

The national air transport company, Cameroon Airline Corporation aka Camair-co announced recently that it is looking for a Sales and Marketing Director. Camair-co is looking for a motivated professional with very high management skills whose contribution to the Commercial Management and Marketing will be decisive in strengthening the commercial performance of the airline, Camair-co said in a call to application released this Thursday, July 16, 2015 on the national bilingual daily Cameroon Tribune. Interestingly, the air transport company that has been a Francophone private preserve ever since they chased away Anglophones airline gurus like John Tabi stated that candidates must, among other things hold a BAC(The Anglophone equivalence of GCE A level) + 5 years in marketing, sales or management, with a minimum of 10 years of experience preferably in an airline. Nothing can best represent the failure of the CPDM regime than the fact that jobs that were in the yesteryears meant only for children from highly placed Francophone Beti-Ewondo background are now being advertised. 

Correspondingly, applicants have until 23rd of July 2015 to submit their application to the Director of Human Resource or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. In addition to marketing and sales director, Camair-co say they are  looking for an experienced B737NG captain and a copilot. The candidate for the captain position must be 60 years including up to July 1, 2015; hold an ICAO ATPL with a Type Rating in force. He must also have a minimum of 5000 hours minimum flight hours including 4,000 public transport in flight, minimum 1000 hours of flight on B737 NG. The co-pilot position, the aspirant must have maximum 40 years and minimum 21 years, have experience of 3000 flight hours maximum including 1,000 hours in public transport. The deadline for applications for both positions have been fixed for 17 July.

A sister publication, Cameroun info.net reported that through this call for applications for the position of Sales and Marketing, camair-co wants to rebuild a direction that had disappeared from the organizational chart of the company for almost a year. The last call for applications to this function dates back to 10th of October 2013, after the sacking of French man Christian Perchat. Our senior economic reporter who contributed to this report observed that he hopes "Camair-co will move away from their traditional practice of flying coffins to flying aeroplanes".