It was (a couple of years ago) a fairly informal chat with the Chief Pilot & HR manager. More about you and your background than technical/have you ever found yourself.....etc. Remember an interview works both ways, so quite a lot of info for you on the company, routes, lifestyle, rostering etc. One "Psychobabblythingytest" afterwards and if successful, a sim assessment.
From memory, pay starts at about £37K for year 1 and after that jumps up to about £44K plus £2.30ish per hour allowances.
Touchdown - airline discount holiday shop, occasionally useful but really you may as well shop around on the internet!
The flying is fun, lots of short sectors, shortest for me so far - 23 mins airborne time. In the winter some pretty demanding weather up in Scandinavia. The longest sector you'd do would be about 2.5 hrs and that seems like ultra longhaul!
You'll often be away at the weekend but not much goes on so expect to be in the hotel or out on the p**s!
There are some issues at the moment, there is a bit of unrest/uncertainty due to the Brussels hub moving to Leipzig. New contracts are likely to be Leipzig based which would need careful consideration, the implications are unknown at present.
Overall, it's fun shorthaul flying with a longhaul lifestyle, reasonable pay, quite a lot of time away, quite a lot of time sat around doing not much, no SLF but not somewhere to be (IMHO) as a youngster trying to build hours & shag hosties. It suits a lot of people for the lifestyle and I personally wouldn't be anywhere else.
I hope this helps!
MD
