Originally Posted by
flymoy
I don't want to get into an argument about any of this but think it should be acknowledged that the way in which this has all been handled was poor.
It was a massive effort and financial commitment for those that applied, myself included. I had to re do my me-ir and then paid for an a320 sim to practice after a couple of years away from commercial flying (due to airline collapsing just during covid). I also paid for travel and hotels to attend interviews and sims.
I finally felt it was safe to return to the airline world and was overjoyed to meet the benchmark for a job with jet2.
After waiting eagerly in the hold pool for 4 months i felt it was poor show for jet 2 to reward my patience and effort with an automared email but more than that. I found it very strange for them to have spent money and effort recruiting me. Informing me I had met the standard, flushing me as though they didn't need any more pilots and then running a "pilot roadshow to recruit more pilots at Bournemouth the same week.....
I posed the question to a recruiter that wouldn't it make more sense to leave me in the hold pool until a position becomes available rather than recruiting more people and was told the head recruiter would call me and discuss when he was back from leave (2 weeks time). I then contacted the same recruiter 2 weeks later and was palmed off with a dismissive automated rejection email when i asked if he was available for that call....
All round quite a disappointing experience from an airline that I had really, genuinely, believed cared about people.
I now feel I was nieve to have thought that maybe pilots were becoming valued and cared for again and that the industry was becoming a stable, safe option.
this is an awful way to treat someone. I have heard countless people being treated like this by j2 over the last 10 years, it seems to be baked into the culture. It reflects very badly on them as an organisation. I have never heard of another UK airline treating people like this.
for what it’s worth, and for some balance, once established almost everyone I know at j2 is happy.