I used to allow 3hrs driving from Brum, most reports are early / lunchtime so you miss the worst of the traffic. As with all things you will get the odd 9am rush hour report with traffic!. From the M40 juction on M25 it will take 1h to 1h30 to LCY. There are a few routes to take to avoid the M25 depending on time of day.
LHR t5 to LCY on the tube is about 1h 40. You would have to try your route dependent on which main london station you arrive at. I`m sure people on here can give you accurate times.
LCY is capt only landing. We fly monitored approaches so F/o will fly the approach for the captains landing.
Time to command is hard to predict. Depends on experience, performance and company requirements. If things pick up we could loose a fair number of F/O`s to the sandpit. Seniority plays a part as well and its all looked at by the Pilot review board.
As with all company's it has its little annoying things, Lunch time crew food being one atm!.
Small friendly company with a few perks like BA staff travel. Please note there is no route across to BA Mainline apart from there normal application process. You do get all BA perks in terms of discounts etc.
LCY flying always interesting with some charter work thrown in to do something different, Nice to have a brand new fleet of nice aircraft. BALPA recognised company with a hard working company council with a good relationship with management. Decent scheduling agreement that means if you agree to be mucked about you will be paid for it.
Not sure of the current F/O pay scale, we have just had a small pay rise.
FDP £1.90 /hour