Virgin 're-hires'
Gordo .......... Well he seemed quite cheerful and willing to talk, probably because the sun was out and it was my round.
VS 747 pilots (Capt and F/O) were offered back on the A330 RHS only, on 65% pay for tempo summer contracts. A £30k bond for the airbus type rating creeped in somewhere, on an unspecified time basis.
We couldn't work out how you could do an airbus type-rating and become cost-effective during a tempo summer contract unless they then required you to commit to further unspecified (bonded) call-back 'when we need you.'
And the word is that a few 'chosen' applicants 'failed' their re-hire interviews.
A big unanswered question apparently (because they won't say) is whether BIG BALPA or little balpa actually agreed formally, in writing, to these re-arrangements