Originally Posted by
rotorwills
Only need to read the front pages of UK newspapers to discover why Virgin are recruiting. Balpa attempting to negotiate layovers etc. Not the best gig in UK by a long way.
It ceased being the best gig in the UK overnight, when the management decided to use the Covid excuse to unilaterally tear up our contracts, and scrap all of our hard fought for protections. And if you didn't sign the new, unilaterally imposed contract, then out the door you go. Something that I belive BA tried, but got pilloried in the press for, and subsequently dropped...
The seniority concept suffered the same fate. Sacking 50% of the pilots, out of seniority, just based on thier type rating at the time. Seniority now only applies when it works in thier favour. Not only will you spend years waiting your turn for promotion, you will also spend your life looking over your shoulder wondering if you've made the right fleet choice come the next inevitable downturn and subsequent redundancy rounds.
What they didn't (and still don't) realise is that those protections were the only thing making VS attractive to pilots.
There are many, many other things that happened that have now rendered VS the least attractive gig in the UK, by a considerable margin. A lot of which will, no doubt, be revealed during the court cases scheduled for next year...