Ryanair - Wannabes & Recruitment

[Bn02fly]

Flying Ryanair Issues?

I have a recruitment day invite including interview with st james management to become part of ryanair's cabin crew.(tomorrow)

I have however discovered some loopholes.
The recruitment day is for training in february.
I (after having to ask) discovered that i would have to pay £500 for training a month before it began. Not £250 as i had previously read.
Then after completion of the course must pay £1000 either in a lump sum or deducted for 9 months in -£130 per month from the salary i would earn. which they claim is around (being the key word) £1100 after deductions.(not raining deductions)

But then it was also mentioned i was guarenteed a job with ryanair.
I was then told i could claim a new starters allowance... of £1000 whcih was paid in 3 installments within the first 6 months.

I have since read articles of ryanair crew being dismissed less than 12months after starting, quite abruptly and the reason given was sales on board were too low. (ryanair denies this)

And of course the oh so famous dispatches investigation.Which currently i havent seen but as my interview is tomorrow i am looking for!

I have no plans to sign up for anything tomorrow... but it would be nice to hear back your views soon please! Thankyou for you're time!


P.s Sorry its lengthy

Oh i forgot i will have to relocate to stansted during training aswell as it is a 3 hour drive away! I will post what i discover tomorrow for those who would like to know what they say foer themselves.

[EXS258]

ryanair cc

iv worked for ryanir as cabin crew.........i traine dindublin with Dalmac and let me tell you, as soon as youve passe dthe course you no treated as an indivudal...your treated as a number... 5 days on 2 days off then 5 days on 3 days off...its hard work especially during the turna arounds, youre in debt up to your eyeballs when u finish the course and if you have to relocate you screwed...my adivce is to stay away from ryanir and look at another airline

hope this helps you

[mikkelaccio]

I have an interview with Ryanair on saturday.
some other comments about this company ? I have heard some really bad as well as some good things about that.
any suggestion how to behave during the interview ?
does everybody are agree about the hard conditiond of working with Ryanair ?
thank you !

[Sinndar girl]

HI everyone

I just would like to introduce myself in the Aviation worls and say mine about all the rumors ,noice,preconcept,vague assumtion and all the rest that people,staff,ex staff newcomer ans people who is still dreaming to work in Aviation may Come out with.

I say we all have to cope ON and stop wiging about Ryan Air!
I mean The more i read the more i think that majority of the comments are from people who has got no Caracter offaceing the hard truth about WORKING hard!!

I worked all my life nearly and i DID work for very unpleasent Boss ,bad pays, bad jobs,bad collegues, places where Culture and intellectual Growt arent part of ur world and not exspected anytime soon.
U get so Use to be umiliated and treated as a slave and as a working machine that U dont think u can do better..
But is LIFE..
Life and experience come togheter to give us all the chance to improve!!!

I got a job wt Ryan Yes!!
I ama new comer with a LOT of experiences about bad JOB and Bad pay.
I worked Fisical as Groom in Race yard couse i have passion for horses but i also worked in the hospitality industry for years!!

I knowhow hard people can be ..WE can be Hard in other people!!
We ae all connected to each others and IF we learn to except things for what they are and think positive we are WINNERS!!

I am So proud i passed my exams,i am proud i finally made it !
Ryan Air is as good or bad as YOU make it.
Its this what life should teach us all .
To be Indipendent and strong when we THINK and CHOOSE.
i bet a lot of people just listen to people who got saket or people who DID NOT like this job after all...
We all need to start somewhere and this is a good start who will be hard indeed but will give us experience,skill and also make us realy think if this is what we want to do!!!

If u cant stay positive in whiting urself U will never be ale to do ANY job...couse belive me guys....
This job is not worst than work for a butcher or a baker or a shop or a cleaner and make exactely the same money and NOT being able to make a CAREER choise of growth!!

I think ifu are a winger u should stay at home and go to colledge untill u are 40 and wait for life to start before u die..

Stop this craziness of talking rubbish about Ryan Air.None forc Us to be there and if u didnt realize NONE will take someone who hasnt got at Least " years experience as a CCM.
Every jobs have the good and the bad...we just have to learn how to cope wt it with intelligence and diplomacy.

When U work for 13 hours for 7 days a week under snow,rain storm, cold and with people who do not consider u Human ...u learn how to preciate that our training is a very high skilled one, that this job isnt for COMUNE thinker or for people who just looks at the money site..

Did u actually check how much u get payed for any other job who will not give u a future carrer????? Did YOU realy?
We need to study all the time,learn,understand,teach and also be srong and ready...we need to be realistic and also..i love the fact Its hard...couse this make me mre stronger and willing to win and do better!!

So even if u worked for Ryan for the past 6 monts and u had enough this is YOU!!
Not the company Not the Staff! NOt ur CCS!!
U decide to be a winner or a Looser..

so lets get REA people and help each other....couse life isnt just Ryan Air...
Life it s all it comes with our choises..and changes.
I think i say mine now....
Best of luck to all new comer and as well the best of luck to all of Us who will not complain but trying to make the best of what we ARE..
Ciao

[Abusing_the_sky]

Sinndar girl,

First of all, may i suggest you use the spell check tool in your future posts, there are some pedantic posters round here!

You say you are a newcomer. OK, it's all great now, but wait for another 6 months to pass... You'll change your mind.
FR are great when it comes to pay, they actually pay more than most of the airlines. For now...
But just hang 'on a second, breathe and relax and listen to one of the "oldies":
You might only work 20-25 hrs a week. I assume you are a No4 now so it's not all that bad... All you have to do is do the service, do a gash and that's about it.
But in a few months you will realize it's not THAT easy. You will find earlies a killer, working 5 days in a row, with little time to eat or use the loo as you are at pax's service. You will find that briefings will be stricter and stricter, that No1's will demand more and more of you, you will struggle with bus schedules and/or motorway closures; you will find it stressful dealing with pax when you're delayed and it's not in your hands to sort out the problem; you will find it difficult to explain to a pax you can't open the bars on the ground, and that the bad weather is keeping you on the ground;
You will find it difficult to deal with those obnoxious, disruptive pax with no back up from some F/D because of the "paperwork"; you will also find it appalling that you will have to empty the toilet bins on all turn around, and you will be disgusted with all the day to day chores you have to do re cleaning;
Cleaning after 180 odd pax when delayed for the inbound is not easy and turn around the a/c "just like that" is only a goldfish wish; we all know the "class" of the majority FR pax and what they leave behind after a 4 hrs flight.
Darling, THIS is not a "it's your fault you don't like it" thing; it's a job, a damn hard one, and you get paid for it. You get your basic and your sector cheque and they pay the bills.
It's not like you have another option, especially with all this credit crunch situation we all suffer from; you can't get another job, you have to do your best and stick with the current (FR in our cases)
Sometimes you enjoy the job, sometimes you don't. That's life darling, and it's not what you've portrayed; the hippie era is now long gone and the "happy thoughts, flowers, sex and drugs to keep us happy" is NOT the way to go nowadays.

So i suggest you enjoy it while it lasts. But don't admit you are a newcomer (with very bad English, sorry, but i thought nowadays they test you guys and give you a proficiency certificate) and then b!tch about people who were in FR way before you even got to crawl under the table.

I understand your excitement, but get off your high horse and smell the coffee sweetheart, it ain't that natural as you describe it...

Rgds,
ATS

[Seat62K]

ATS,

With regard to the "class of the majority FR pax", aren't you over-generalising somewhat?

With regard to "what they leave behind", have you ever seen the state of a "legacy" carrier's premium cabin once the passengers have disembarked?

Please don't misunderstand me: I think cabin crew should not have to put up inconsiderate, ill-mannered etc. passengers.

[By the way, I'm the one who greets you on boarding, sits in 33C or D, listens attentively to the safety briefing (even though I've heard it countless times), offers a polite "No, thank you" when offered the menu, and if first in the queue to disembark - which is often the case - will chat to you!]

[Abusing_the_sky]

Seat62K, i might've meet you you know, you sound like one of those lovely (rare, but lovely nonetheless) pax who with just one smile made me forget about the (possibly) horrible day i had

Shame the likes of you, pax wise, are an endangered species.
I know you are CC but by god, sometimes (very few times tho), a CC travelling as pax is worse than your regular punter...

Right, thread drift finished. Just wanted to tell you you are more than welcomed in any of my flights.

Rgds,
ATS

[Seat62K]

ATS,
Many thanks for your kind words.
By the way, I'm not CC. I work outside of aviation.

[G-UNIT]

My god, I thought Sinndar Girls post was someones bad joke!

How can anyone leave school with that level of literacy? amazing...

[flapsforty]

G-UNIT, your personal comments are less than thoughtful and possibly more than hurtful.

Not everybody on this forum is a native English speaker. (flyblue and I aren't)
Not everybody on this forum has been lucky enough to grow up in a country where all children go to quality schools regardless of their parents' income.
Not everybody has had the advantage of secondary education.

Going by her post, Sinndra girl has a diverse background, and has learnt very early in life what hard work is all about. That has my respect right off the bat.
Her written English is not good, and with a little effort could be a lot better. She'll get there if she wants to.
In the mean time, after doing many different jobs and not always under the best of circumstances, she is now an FA with an international airline. No mean feat and again, respect.

You can agree or disagree with her arguments about Ryan Air; that's part of what this forum is all about.
To diss a fellow poster on a personal level is to my mind completely out of line.

[Hombre]

G-Unit, before you slag off other people's grammar, I think you'll find it's "someone's" in your last post.

For your further education, at no additional cost, and in comparison, 'yours' & 'theirs' are possessive singular & plural pronouns respectively so don't require an apostrophe.

[racedo]

My god, I thought Sinndar Girls post was someones bad joke!

How can anyone leave school with that level of literacy? amazing...

Years of Text speak on a phone potentially is a guess, I'm answersing your question not commenting on her posting..

[candy08]

recruitment dsay for ryanair

I have an interveiw wt ryanair next fri! What should I wear as it is an individual interveiw but its also a recruitment day?????? please help

[candy08]

Ryanair recruitment

what should I wear to a ryanair cabin recruitment as i have an interveiw???????????please help

[student88]

You are going for an interview with an airline. Common sense suggests you dress smart. If you are a man wear a suit, if you are a woman wear the female version of a suit. Good luck.

[baileybabe]

Ryan Air Interview.

HI, I HAVE A INTERVIEW WITH RYANAIR IN FEBUARY AND I UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE TO PAY FOR THE TRAINING. CAN ANYBODY TELL ME DO I HAVE TO PAY A DEPOSIT AT THE INTERVIEW?
I MUST ADMIT IT SOUNDS A BIT FISHY. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW THE STRUCTURE OF THE DAY WHAT THEY WILL ASK AND MAKE US DO. ALSO WHEN U DO THE TRAINING DO THEY PUT YOU UP IN ACCOMMADATION. IF ANYONE CAN SHED LIGHT ON THE MATTER PLEASE LET ME KNOW. THANXS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[baileybabe]

I Also Have A Interview With Ryanair.

HI WHEN IS UR INTERVIEW, MINE IS ON THE 25TH OF FEBUARY AT ST JAMES BUILDING. DO YOU KNOW ALOT ABOUT THE DAY, THERE NOT VERY INFORMATIVE. I KNOW WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THE COURSE BUT DO WE HAVE TO PUT A DESPOSIT DOWN AT THE INTERVIEW? KEEP IN TOUCH AND LET ME KNOW XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

[baileybabe]

How Did It Go

HI HOW DID YOUR INTERVIEW GO. I HAVE ONE WITH THEM IN FEBRUARY BUT I AM NERVOUS BECAUSE OF THE WHOLE PAYING FOR THE TRAINING. DID YOU HAVE TO PUT A DEPOSIT DOWN AT THE INTRVIEW PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED. XXX

[baileybabe]

WHAT DID THEY MAKE YOU DO IN THE GROUP ASSESMENT AND WAS THERE A MATHS TEST AND ENGLISH. DO YOU THINK YOU WILL PURSUE THE JOB LET ME KNOW I REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO. THANXS XX

[The Real Slim Shady]

Smart but casual.