Chaps,
Can only tell you how it is from someone at the sharp end of being made redundant from a well known carrier agood few months back, and I can tell you that there are quite a fair few of us on the scrap heap right now.
I have an hons degree, 5 years ops / crewing experience, and can tell you that every job going right now is fought over just as much as a pilot scholarship.
Many who frequent this forum have one beedy eye over their shoulder at the cuts that seem to fall on ops and crewing departments for the sake of an Intranet co-ordinator or an Auditor of Diddly squat, so maybe thats why you are not getting a great deal of response, a pity really cause I have good mates who came into the industry a bit like you and worked bloody hard in Ops so that they got into the flying lark.
Good luck to you both, but don't expect a lot of favours if this Ops Bod comes up against you at interview (I mean that in the best possible spirit !!)
Dave Diamond
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