May I ask if your June start date is now 100% confirmed (which you go for MEL Enroute correct?)? I can feel your pain waiting from Sep to June...

I'm doing en-route starting in June. I applied April 25', AC in Sep so will be 14 months all up from applying to first day training.

Hopefully the Melbourne folks hear an update this month.

Melburnian here! I just received my Assessment Centre invite for either April 29th or 30th. How exciting!

Congrats! Hopefully we start seeing more of these soon. I received an email today saying "Your application remains active, and we’ll be in touch soon with timelines and all the details you’ll need for next steps" and it goes further with different information. Did you receive one of these before?

I received that at the same time as the Assessment Centre invite

Oh snap. I’m working overseas for 2 weeks starting 24th. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Hopefully there are more sessions further down the line…

Excited for you Emily!

I also received that email. Anyone else joining one of the info sessions? I’m gonna join the 17:30 tomorrow (Thursday 16th)

Oh that's a shame! I feel like they don't give a whole lot of notice for it so it can be hard to plan around.

I'm booked in for the May info session - I'm on a double overnight (tonight into tomorrow and tomorrow into Fri) so I'll be asleep at 1 and working at 5.30

Info session was alright. Can't say I really learned a lot. Since I've been researching ASA and this career a bit. Was still interesting though. There was 130ish people on the call, which was a lot more than I thought there would be.

I have not heard anything regarding AC for me. Which is good at this stage. Should be back in time if I get an invite today and your 2-week timeline is anything to go by.

Best of luck emilynws and any other Melburnians going in next week!

With Emilynws getting an AC invite I thought we would see more people discussing it. I didn't receive one but I'm from a later cohort than Emilynws, so hopefully I get in the next one.

Back when I did my AC in Sep they said that they were trying to ramp up to one AC every month. At the same time they are restructuring the en-route course to make it smaller class sizes but more focused on where your final field training will be like. i.e surveillance or non-survelliance. Would assume the same would be for tower stream with radar and non-radar.

WA Tower
 

Hi all! Just wondering if anyone would have knowledge of if the WA tower only opening would be advertised again in the near future?
To my knowledge it was advertised once last December. Would be hard to imagine they hire all they need in one round of recruitment…

I missed out due to personal circumstances so would keen to know if there will be another round..

Cheers

How did your AC day go?

Good news!

Got an ad hoc invitation to attend the AC earlier this week, and received reference check request today!

I have to say I did badly in the group assessment and did not expect this will progress further.

Thank you for all the sharings here, have been very helpful! Good luck to those waiting for the AC invitation!

Congrats!

Hi All! A colleague showed me this website/thread after I told them I'd made it through the ASA testing, thought I'd share my situation here. I had my AC in Sydney in late March, and after reference checks in April I received a suitability(?) email about a week and a half ago. I'm waiting for them to finalise courses before they can progress the application for medical and ASIC. Rumors have it that the next courses after July are in October, would be neat to see if some of you are in the same boat.

I'm a Kiwi, so I've also been through the full testing with Airways in NZ. The testing process is the exact same, as ASA adopted the process from Airways about a year ago. Might be worth a consideration if you don't mind the move. The difference is that the Kiwis treat the training like a uni course; $14k NZD course cost, no pay until first placement, and no guaranteed job at the end. I received an offer for training with Airways, but turned them down in favour of ASA - the move is far worth it against the liability of Airways training costs.

Hello peeps!

I wanted to attend the info session that happened yesterday but it was full when I tried to register a while ago. I've heard there might have been a link to the recording but I cant see if ASA has uploaded it anywhere. Does anyone have a link to the recording?

I was also wondering if anyone who has been through this process (or is further along) can tell me how long they had to wait after doing the behavioural test in round 3?

I'm also curious on how stream allocation is done, do we get much choice in the matter?

Congratulations mate! Fingers crossed for you that it progresses. If you don’t mind me asking how did they contact you for your AC spot? Email? I’m cohort 14 too so I’m thinking I must be getting pretty close to a call up!

Hi Team,

I am part of cohort 1 2026 according to airservices website.
Just received an email saying I passed online testing and will have a phone screen call but no confirmed date yet.
Anyone else in this boat?

Thank you!

I got a sudden call the day before asking if I can come in for AC the next day!

Did anyone else receive an email for a phone screening?

Hello,

I’m in that boat.
Very thankful for this thread and everyone who has shared their timelines!

Anyone get any AC invites for this month so far?

Hey Guys
I'm Cohort 18 - 2025. My Timeline so far:

24 Dec 25 - Applied

02 FEB 26- Round 1 testing invite
10 FEB 26 - Round 2 testing invite
17 FEB 26 - Round 3 testing invite
24 FEB 26 - Application progressed to phone screening (unknown date)

09 MAR 26 - Phone screening notification
10 MAR 26 - Phone screening
13 MAR 26 - Application progressed to assessment centre (unknown date)

15 APR 26 - "Thanks for continued interest…. many applicants… your application is on active hold we will be in touch."

Haven't heard anything since. On the phone screen call they said AC would probably be some time May-June.
Not sure if anyone else has heard anything?

There seem to be a rather large recruitment push at the moment...

I have a link for the info session. PM me if you like.

Thank you for this!

Just got my offer on the phone for New Zealand starting in October, is anyone else here in the same cohort as me? :)

Yeehaw!! Congrats Mate. That's awesome news.

Big congrats mate, I assume that is for Tower Stream?

I also have the verbal offer of Tower Stream in Melbourne starting in Jan 2027, hope to see some of you in the same course.

Congrats to you as well mate! and yup for tower stream

This is great news, congrats guys!

Congrats, I got the same!

Congrats mate! Hopefully its not much longer for the medical checks

Keeping eyes on the inbox for sure. I got my call a while ago (6th May) but still waiting on news for the medical or anything in writing I can sign. Same for you?

Is everyone finding that Airservices love to take their sweet time with the application process?

My reference check process was delayed unfortunately so I only got my call last week on the 21st of May. And yeah hoping I hear from medical soon as that seems to be the final obstacle of this whole process.

It was two months between Assessment Center and phone call with verbal offer, then another three months between verbal offer and written offer. To bo honest the medical provider they had for me (Jobfit) really delayed my medical process. They didn't have any pre-approved clinics for me in Sydney so the whole process took about 3 months and even then I had to schedule my own optometrist appointment.

If I were to do it again I would just get your medical done on your own and get reimbursed once you start.

I would say the waiting time is that Airservices themselves don't know any information either, it's quite a fluid environment so basically when they know something you will know. When I got my call in November they said my course would start in March and then in February when I got my letter my start date was June because they have revamped the entire en-route course. So things are always changing but they are trying to get more people through and more people succesfully passing.

Interesting I didn't realise you could do the medical on your own without jobfit.. Do you still book it on your own through the myCASA website?

Did anyone else fail the phone screening? I don’t think mine went that bad, and I was fully willing to relocate etc. but just got told I was unsuccessful compared to the criteria

I'm sure it's happened but probably rare, can I ask what you answered to the questions? Also, can I ask if english is your first language?

Hey friends!
I finally got my AC date (only 11 months after my initial application haha), would anyone who has been through the AC recently, especially from Melbourne, be open to me messaging them on here to ask a couple of questions about the format of the day? Feel free to reply to this, or message me directly. Much appreciated! I'm praying I still have enough time to get on the NZ Tower course in Oct, if I'm successful.

Hey mate off topic but I'm unable to reply to your PM as you're probationary and get a tiny inbox till you post more or delete some old messages :)