Monarch Pilots

[redadair]

Hello, Have been interested in gaining a flying job with Monarch now for a couple of years. Have even received a couple of positive letters but nothing more.

I meet their minimum requirements for direct entry (have over 3000hrs total, over 2000multi-crew/glassFD.) and live close to one of their bases.

Any chance, one of you 'Monarch people' could drop me a PM?
or try [email protected]

Trouble is I just don't know any Monarch Pilots.
Any responses greatly appreciated.

[Cuillin]

Monarch have decided (quite rightly) that they have not enough pilots to cover the summer and just enough pilots to cover the winter.

End result is that they are offering temporary contracts only for the summer (May - October).

A guess at the numbers involved are about 30 temporary contracts, the majority of which are 200 hr CTC cadets. There are two courses for the A320/321 in Jan/Feb 2004 and one course for the B757 in Feb 2004. The CTC cadets are chosen because they are, generally, able and it keeps the accountants happy.

An advertisement on the BALPA website indicates that they are looking for a small number of type-rated people (about two on each fleet B757/A320/A300) for temporary FO contracts as well.

No permanent contracts at the moment.

Five permanent commands and twelve summer commands are appearing this spring.

Monarch, in my view, has good conditions of service and as good a pension as you could expect in the present market but this is only in comparison to the lack of quality elsewhere.

Very few First Officers leave for the above reasons so Monarch have experience levels well above the industry norm in the right hand seat.

Downside is time to command - very difficult to quantify with only five a year being given out.

Upside is that they have a fairly large retirement bulge amongst Captains in the next 5-6 years or so.

Seniority list indicates about 285 pilots at present.

24 aircraft for the summer - 22 for the winter.

All the best

[Rosbif]

I've got 1500 on A310 which is the same rating as the 300-600, all in the right seat. I'd love to do the temp contract thing with them. I qualify for all the training waivers and i have a brit passport too !! Nearly 6000 tt. If they did the normal recurrent training, I could do the JAR licence. Also happy to work on a validation of my Canada licence.
Cuillin, any chance you could PM me with my chances?