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Old 22nd May 2006, 20:09
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Colonel Klink
 
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With all this garbage about RT, let me remind anyone who has not read the many easyJet postings in Rumours and News, as to why easyJet is so short of pilots:
1) almost every duty up to FTL maximum, usually 11.45 per day
2) 4 to 6 sector days, every day with 20 to 25 minute turnarounds
3) Two shifts per day, so start for a 6 am sign on, or finish around 2330.
4) 5 weeks leave per year, behind the industry standard of 6.
5) There is an acute shortage of Trainers, so it will take a while to get on line, just in time for winter.

If you are coming for a holiday, remember over 100 pilots have left easyJet in the last year, most exhausted and over 350 have left in the last 4 years. They cannot recruit qualified pilots in Europe as there is a shortage here, and the T's and C's, even with the payrise agreed last week, have fallen far behind all it's competitors. You will recruited to be used as a dumping ground for maximum flying, which may be great for you if you want to die young, but will still leave easyJet with the same problem when you are gone, because it refuses to take a long term view and SOLVE the problems!!!
PM me if you want to know more.
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