BA Cityflyer
Marlowe you are so negative about this, i remeber the same posting from you when I used to work for Citiexpress and applied for BA LHR. You are correct in saying you have no automatic right of transfer...however if you apply to Mainline and you work for Cityflyer you:
1) Keep your staff number
2) Keep your Date of Joing for Staff Travel Purposes
3) They DO look at your ops file to see if you are any good.
T's and C's will not be as good as mainline, but if you want to work to wear the Uniform, do some decent 3 day trips (from what i've heard) and work for a small airline with a BIG Airline backing then go for it. Quick pomotion, recoginsed hard work...soemthing you dont get with mainline. When the time comes apply for mainline, give it your best shot, and if you've kept your nose clean and haven't messed up the interview you'll most likely get through.
You'll find the interviews are the same and the customer service training is identical!