Originally Posted by
PilotRichard
Thanks for the response!
I think if TUI came knocking it would be hard to turn them down vs VAA, again I'm just nervous about the financial position of TUI, whether that be justifiably or not. Knocked off the throne by Jet2, the sole charter airline still going, still making losses since pandemic (who isn't!), a large boom in hiring, especially lower hour pilots which on the face of it is seems good, but all seemingly on these full time yet part time contracts, which doesn't scream 'we can afford to hire full time crew'., something doesn't sit right with any of the options (if I were to have them). IMO the safest jobs are either BA, Ryanair or Jet2.
I feel like I've become a pessimist in looking for a reasons to doubt in every company, Dammit!!
TUI have always had a winter summer imbalance. It was also a Last Choice trick of hiring permanent-part-year. In the past the imbalance had been smoothed by detachments: Scandianavia, Canada.
I’m not sure what the latest is, but the Canada contract is/ has ended. The, recently stepped down DFO, was trying to use that as stick.
TUI was good, the crew 99% brilliant. VS doesn’t sound like a particularly happy ship, but that’s only from a couple of people I know there. VS were brutal over covid, TUI didn’t make any redundancies.