Airboy,
If there at AEU, tell them to stay there!
These contracts that have been issued state no holiday pay, no sick pay, the employee has to give them 3 months notice and if they don't they are fined £500, however the employer can give 1 month notice without any reason. This is not pointed out to us it was only discovered by those of us who read the 'small print'.
The aircraft have got to be seen to be believed, sure they'll tell you that there dur for refurbishment but then they've been saying that for ages and as the aircraft are due to go is it really going to happen, I think not. There's rumours of new aircraft, note rumours, and if it does happen there looking at Ansett ex-fleet from the dessert!
They've just had an engine catch fire AGAIN.
Not 1 flight has gone out with the right amount of catering and virtually all the work they've got is ad-hoc. They do a PFO so early that another 2 people are called out to 'prep' the aircraft and this new manager is going round mouthing 3 strikes and your out - great for morale!
Oh and the supposed 'trainer' failed to impress the CAA on a recent training course that I was on to the point there was a chance we were going to have to re-do it! Yet again they wiggled out of it by saying they didn't know about it. Surely as a trainer you adapt, besides they'd been into crewing 5 days previous to see who was on it so they knew about it then.
AEU have got big things happening, tell your friend to stay, the grass is NOT greener on the other side in this case it's black!