Originally Posted by
380Mrat
I absolutely agree with your points Sir, all well scored! I am admittedly still deliberating in the most exhausting manner one could about whether or not to consider WZZ. It all depends on the face to face interview and what comes of it.I have already flown this type of LCC ops with worse conditions in Africa flying on occasion upto 9 sectprs per day with 6-8 being norm, zero crew meals(except for peanuts,biscuits and water,juice) being my staple diet for a couple of months when they were still fledgling and a salary not proud to announce here.I hacked it and managed to pull out after a couple of thousand hours with ATPL and find work in the Mid East even if getting initially involved with an LCC arguably worse than WZZ before I stabilized my jet career growth over a span of 8 years. Even if one does not own a home here it is where all my family relations are based. How many clear days off/month do you know you actually get at WZZ. I was hoping a more copious Crew meal would be provided bit I suppose they want you to buy on board to boost their in flight sales! Regardless what an FO makes next door to where I live or indeed what I was making till last month which is triple what WZZ can pay me; I see it for the sake of my own benefit due to lack of alternatives and sustainable employment time being. I think if I sacrifice a year so and upgrade on to the left seat on A321 I can live with the double increase in pay considering long term job security as WZZ has announced in public it plans to expand phenomenally in the coming decade. Most of my experience at the WWAD base (due to its distant location on its network) will mean long haul flying mostly on 321s.This means faster accumulation of flying hours on type which gives je a closer reach to joining the bigger carriers due to : already basing in UAE and operating with a UAE license. There are options to also consider ACJ jobs locally as well which will also be an improvement in pay from WZZ .So looking on the near horizon I might agree with you whole heartedly and sensibly but after years the the training bond period is over and if am not happy I will be in a more advantageous position to apply for an A380 job than I am now. As I will not financing the whole training, should I be selected, I have more to gain than lose. Whether my body,psyche or soul can cope is another matter and only when I time comes to swim the high seas will i be able to tell. For now better to jump on the bandwagon while optimism is still in the air and flowing in my veins. I have had poorer options to fall back on in the past and managed to cope for the short term goal I wanted to achieve then. My previous employers were not reliable paymasters and WZZ in comparison looks super organized, though with lots of stick in their carrot! This might be a fruit coated with thorns but there are ways to get to the fruit without the thorns getting in the way. They are just necessary obstacles and as I am not privileged to work in EU or USA where most of the decent jobs are, the M.East will do just fine for me, be it WZZ, Corporate, private jets, or indeed mega carriers like Emirates which will all be within reach with a couple of thousand hours and PIC time on the Airbus.
Your advise is, however greatly appreciated for it shows empathy for a fellow comrade struggling to keep my wings back aloft! I shall attentively be sifting through these valuable threads for more insider tell tales.
days off will be minimum legal and a random roster probably, if you have more than min legal expect to be called on your off days
rhey spend about €4 on your crew meal and no ovens on board. So you’ll be buying food at the airport or bringing it with you every day
it has all these massive expansion plans but their crew retention levels are so bad that they can barely manage to crew the planes they already have. For every 1 who I know who joins with I know 2 are leaving.
30 this month-45 days have start dates with ba. We will run out of cabin crew soon