Originally Posted by
UAV689
Brexit is the go too standard excuse for everything at the moment. I am sick of it.
J2 last week said it’s having zero impact, brits will still holiday.
The lead time time to get crews through recruitment, through the sims, line training and to the line is ages. 6 months at least if you factor in the notice period at current employer, perhaps more for cadets. The sims are planned for the next 18months. They are still advertising daily for Ltc and Sfi...why is that....
BIG PICTURE PEOPLE
Man, I think you're really undervaluating the situation... of course the brits will holiday without caring, but jet2 has also a minority of foreign employees.
The point is that nobody has a clue of what will happen to the portugese (example) pilot working in the UK to send the brits to holiday...working visa? Retroactive? Shall he apply for it? Does company has to pay for it? We will discover this maybe in 1 month and it will be effective in less than 2. And you prime minister doesn't seem very collaborative.
Then the 737max: China Southern cancelled the orders, Air canada as well, Southwest and United extended cancellations and god knows who else.
This said I'm not stating that Ryanair is collapsing and everybody is in danger, getting the big picture it's always good, but looking at the situation from Mars comparing it with the 10 years ago situation may be a bit too far too.
As for the sims working at full regime as you say, it took one morning for them to freeze all the incoming types, it will take just another morning not to renew training contracts. Seeing cadet programs advertisement on facebook or wherever doesn't mean they're still hiring (I don't know details aboit this).
Again man, I hope so much you're right, I'm wrong and this situation will get solved in 3 months.