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Firstly, welcome and well done on passing selection! Don't be too disappointed with NCL, it is merely a matter of time before you get (your) more desirable option. Enjoy your time discovering the
reality about life north of Watford; you never know you might do as I did and never go back to Surrey!!! Remember you get the same pay based in NCL or LGW and I know where it goes further.......
Also bear in mind that during type rating training you will probably be elsewhere and during line training you will be rostered where the trainers are, which may well be NCL, but will probably include plenty of more time away from base.
On that note, keep looking at the positives such as all the time you are away from base you will be getting duty pay 24hrs a day and B&B in a half decent hotel, so all you have to spend on is a Hilton Burger in the evenings and a few jars of the amber juice.
Life could be seriously much worse and just wait until you meet a certain CC member from the North East who(se) charms (you will see) on a turnaround!!!!!
Enjoy.
PP