I'm from Australia, and I applied for LGW, got an interview, had to pay my own airfares and accomodation to London (which was a fair amount of money to spend for an interview with no guarantee of success! Thankfully it paid off though! Still waiting for training though ) - and I was the only person who was non-UK at my interview...
So yeah - I guess it DOES happen... As long as you hold an EU passport - there's no reason for non-UK residents to not apply (I have a Belgian passport)...
At this time it is awkward to recruit any non EC nationals due to the very strict regs applied by Canada & the USA. Not totally accurate but in effect if Crew are not EC or other states with right of entry or another passport holder but with right of abode (or similar) they will not be permitted to enter. BA have in the recent past had a number or crews rejected. As you can appreciate it is a logistical nightmare to recruit lomghaul and then exclude them from various services.
hi I hold a passport from a a recently joined EU country and I was successful at the assessment with BA for Longhaul. I think they doublechecked when I was at the interview so I assume If I got it the passport is ok. I already had my National Insurence Number with me. In order to apply for N.I. I think U have to be in UK already as U have to provide some proof of address and other documents in order to get it. hope this helps !
I decided to move to Belgium virtually straight away (as I have family here, and being closer to the UK than Australia, it would be easier to move from here) - I was also told that I needed to get an NI number, but haven't started the process...
I won't move to the UK officially until I get my call from BA for my training - as you said before, it's really expensive, and without a steady income (or an income at all, for the moment, since I left my job in Australia to come to Belgium!), I don't think I would be able to last very long...
BA do tell you at the assessment day that they give all candidates a minimum of 6 weeks notice for your training - I'm hoping that will be long enough to find a place to stay, and organise my NI number...
I too would be interested to hear from other non-UK residents in regards to applying for and organising the NI number. bogdanko: Can you shed any light on where/how to get the NI number? I think I read somewhere that you needed to undergo an interview? If you could send me a private message, that would be great (that way I can start trying to organise some of the relevant paperwork)
I'm pretty surprised that we are still recruiting for LGW!
I know there are planned training courses between now and September...after that who knows. I am sorry to say the people in the holding pools may be waiting a VERY long time. In a couple of years the market and economy should pick up again...until then...strap yourselves in, it's going to be a bumpy ride!
In order to apply for NI nr. U have to make an appointment with the local jobcenter plus. They will need proof of address from UK; proof of identity ( passport) and maybe a letter from the employer ; anyway they let U know about the documents required.
all the best!
Hope the courses are still going to run this year ! Otherwise why bother to recruit !
Virginia: I sent BA Recruitment an email asking when they expected training for LGW holding pool candidates (and told them my assessment day was end of March - as we all know they give training dates in order of your assessment day) and they replied with 'very soon'... I hope we won't be waiting very much longer... 'Very soon' may possibly be the end of the week, end of the month - or for all we know, end of the year... Shame they can't be more precise! When I tried to communicate with BA through email in Australia, I found that they were very abrupt, and didn't answer all the questions in the email (infact, I remember distinctly that I had to send the same email back several times, each time omitting the previously answered questions - as they only answered the first question in each email!) - I ended up calling them, and they were extremely helpful! Unfortunately, I only have a mobile phone here (no landline), and the cost to call BA's 0870 number from here in Belgium would kill me, so I will have to make do with their not very informative emails!
Has anybody called recruitment to get a definitive answer?
Concerning training at Lgw.(I am now in the 4 th week).The first two days are general introduction,then you are bussed off to LHR for SEP and aircraft conversions.You are at LHR for 8 days in total and where they can they put you up in a hotel,if not they bus you there and back in the day which involves a lovely 6 am depart.As well as youre basic pay ,you get allowances which total somewhere in the region of £380 for the training course which is nice to know,.Then back to Lgw for avmed and two weeks of customer service.Hope this helps(no you dont pay for hotel)
Is anyone on the assessment day on the 8th July,was supposed to be tomorrow but was phoned this morning to tell me that they had overbooked for the day.
Cannot confirm but December has been mentioned and very shortly the organisation will want all the Line Trainers back on line for the August rush, if it comes? FWIW we usually have very little or nil training for the last 2 weeks of July and all of August it is nothing to worry about.
Sorry everyone but BA are now cancelling future LGW courses despite having people to interview for LGW this week! I am guessing that a lot of cutbacks this winter will be from LGW...
Virginia is correct again and we might expect these cuts to be drastic, with LGW taking the bruntt with outsolurcing of ramp handling and even at a push pax services. There will be a severe cut back at both london airports of shorthaul routes. I would expect to see us cease ops to a number that we have only just started to serve and concentration will be at T5 on the high earning club routes. Some routes will lose there 'First' it will be a tough couple of years and it is likely that CC numbers will be reduced.
Will BA be contacting those of us in the hold-pool, waiting for our course dates - that they will no longer be available?! Or will we just find out at the end of our 12mth period that 'Oh sorry - we cancelled training, please re-apply in 12mths'
) - and I was the only person who was non-UK at my interview...
In a couple of years the market and economy should pick up again...until then...strap yourselves in, it's going to be a bumpy ride!
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