ps....bmi hand all paperwork re the IDs to the ID centre and it is them, not bmi, who can take up to 5 weeks or more to process applications and then call crew in for their appointments.
Yeah but they take weeks to organise the paperwork to send it off. A girl on my course got called in a week after training to take her passport in so they could take a photocopy. She was there for four weeks with her passport, why couldn't they do it then? I was always being called back to sign things that I had already signed, which wasted so much time. After all that most crew get a temporary pass anyway!
I do agree with you with the four sector days though. I find them tiring, but not too bad. When you do four Glasgow's for example you have a long day, but it's only about 6 hours of flying really. I personally have no problem with doing four sector days, but maybe it's because it's what i'm used to.
What does get on my tit's is the "Earlys". You Normally start at about 6am and finish at 4pm and by the time you've got home and had dinner you're back in bed for the next "early" the next day. It really does catch up with you. I was on my fourth early day today and it got so much I thought I was going to fall asleep at the wheel driving into work. I actually nodded off in my jumpseat for a few seconds today, which can't be good. HOw can I be able to cope with an emergency when i'm that tired? It's not the fact that i'm not going to bed, because i'm always sleeping, but the long days do really get to you.
Hopefully things will be getting better, I can only hope that day comes soon!!!!!!