Commander 1
I flew for Britannia as crew, left and went into ground handling, left and went to an airline that folded and then joined the airline I'm with now. From experience I will say that after working on the ground, I don't know how long you were with them, you have a lot to unlearn. I know I did
All airlines are hard work during the initial training, I can't talk for FR, I have never worked for them, but when at BY the pass mark was 93%, all written answers no multi choice and answers had to be as per the manual (word for word) god that training was hard. One the other hand I can still complete a by 767-300 location diagram and I left them in 2000.
One thing I have learnt is that even with multi choice answers if there is a section you can write in on the answer paper then they normally want something to be written there. So cover your back and if you can give them more information, they can't mark you down for that surely!! Plus it shows that you know, and can explain, what you are talking about.
I know that FR do charge for training, else where on this site is probably more talk about that than I can to read, so I am not going to comment about it. One thing to think about tho is here in the UK we are lucky that the majority of airlines pay for crew training and you are paid whilst training. In the US you do not get paid whilst training and then they can base you where ever they see fit.
Can I ask, why did you apply to FR?