servisair training

[psa-baby]

hi i am a newbie to the airport world and am needing some help!! i have just been given a position with servisair as a passenger service agent and have a 3 week training course to complete can anyone give me an insight as to what to expect???? has anyone just done this:confused::confused:

[sat1]

take a very thick book for you and tissues for the trainer

[psa-baby]

ok........:rolleyes:

[finding_nema]

Hi psa-baby. I've not worked for Servisair, but have worked as a PSA before, and during your training you'll be covering areas like security, customer service, how the airport works, individual airline policies, using check-in computer systems and possibly learning manual check-in also. My course was only nine days long, but it was only handling one airline and the days were quite long, but hope this gives you a rough idea.

[psa-baby]

thanks for that!! looking forward to it but have heard very mixed feelings on here and wasnt quite sure what to expect!! :hmm:

[TOWTEAMBASE]

You will love it. Tad boring to begin with, but if you can put up with dangerous goods training, AAA and Security, and the 24hr clock for a few hours in a classoom, then the irrate pax that you have to face should be a walk in the park. And you should listen to sat1.he/she is a trainer within servisair after all.........allegedly:D oh, and by the way, get your glad rags on,its the xmas party on the 12th, :yuk:

[Subject 117]

Sorry to dash your hopes there towteambase but psa-baby wont be at Stansted.

The training goes something like this

3 days corp induction
6 days passenger training
5 days computer training

The computer training length will depend on what system you will be trained on. Then i would expect you will have some online shadowing after that

[TOWTEAMBASE]

I dont recall STN ever being mentioned there my old china, just passing on what i have come across in the past. Im sure there is some corporate stuff they have to do that is generic to ALL stations.

[Subject 117]

wasn't that mate, just your mention of the Xmas party that's all

[psa-baby]

i have about 7 xmas parties to go to this yr so one less is one less hangover i have to suffer!!
thanks for all your comments so far its been interesting!;)

[eoincarey]

or you could do what i did. Do 2 days of Pax Service training, get bored as f**k, and then nag your way onto Dispatch.
Way more interesting.
ETC

[TOWTEAMBASE]

Sorry it took so long to reply 117 but its december, you know...the month you have xmas parties, im sure in the servisair fold there may be OTHER stations having a knees up that night....think outside the bubble son

[TOWTEAMBASE]

Anyway PSA, how you finding it

[psa-baby]

easy! i have come across fire safety and health and safety and codes ect before as an agent so that bits ok its airline policies and info that we are on at the moment.....:)

[love4music05]

do you have like mini tests on wat u have learned? x

[psa-baby]

yeah they are all multi choice so its a bit easy really but the last one i did was written answers no choices there then!! :uhoh:

[love4music05]

oh dear lol i better get learning lol.
i cant wait to start but im a bit nervous!

[psa-baby]

i was too but you really dont need to worry as they are great trainers and make it simple to understand and learn :) dont forget no jeans and trainers though smart casual only!

[love4music05]

ah yeh iv got some black trousers to wear, dont know what top yet, what did u wear?
Have you got your uniform?? what kind of shoes do u have to wear once you start? doesnt say anything about them?! x

[psa-baby]

i had black court shoes used to have them for work anyway and casual shirts 3 quarterlength tops that sort of thing!! its a pain i am waiting for uniform to come through takes about 2 weeks apparently after contract is handed in. should hopefully see it next week!!!:ok::):)

[love4music05]

ooh cool ok, i havent got proper court shoes, didnt wanna get any for them to say they were to high or not the right design etc...

[TOWTEAMBASE]

The uniform is usualy the last thing to arrive because,in theory, you hand in your sizes on day one of your induction, it gets ordered, and turns up for your day...BUT, simewhere between admin and the supplier.....it gets held up, and you usualy spend a week or two in your own clothes. AAAAND THEN.yep, you guessed it, it doesnt fit. But you will enjoy the job, its a whole new circle of friends, its a good company to work for WHATEVER you may read on other links. The hours may suck from time to time, and so do one or two of your workmates, but hey, where doesnt it. enjoy:):):)

[psa-baby]

i definately enjoying it but have now been given an extra week of training to learn sheduled flights(already doing sheduled and charter) but i think its something to do with being able to move peoples places on the flight but not sure all i know is its another week before i get let loose!!

[Bravo21]

glad your training seems to be going well shame they dont train us all up like that!

[Lyndseylou89]

Hey, I start my Training with Servisair next week at BFS and I'm wondering what it involves? I'm quite nervous about it and would like a little heads up about what I will be doing and if there are exams etc, much appreciated :)

[Bigbluebroxi]

For what job?

Its about two weeks worth of classroom training , then on the job training depending. on what the role is.

Its Swissport now btw, Servisair no longer exists.