Ryanair - Wannabes & Recruitment
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Hi everybody,
I am a new comer here. I applied successfully for the cabin crew training at Ryanair and I would like to know some internal info, like how is accomodation, how much money should I take, after training can we work immediately? etc
Thanks in advance
C.
I am a new comer here. I applied successfully for the cabin crew training at Ryanair and I would like to know some internal info, like how is accomodation, how much money should I take, after training can we work immediately? etc
Thanks in advance
C.
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I heard that with the less flight time of 25 %. But how can you earn the same if you are paid in hours you fly? That would mean that you also get 25 % less money. Or do they increase the hourly pay?
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I saw a dispatchers programme about them a few years ago, and judging by that it looked pretty easy to pass all of the tests if you got onto training, as the examiner let them sit the exam with all of their notes in front of them! 
. Things have probably changed since then though..
Good luck all the same!
Teen Wanabee Crew
. Things have probably changed since then though..Good luck all the same!
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Ive been invited to an open day / Interview at Stansted next week after St James's accepted my application and CV.
Anyone know what i can expect down there, and any tips on how to get the job?
Anyone know what i can expect down there, and any tips on how to get the job?
Best of luck and be yourself
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24hrs @ STN
Well I love working for Ryanair the low fares airline.... Think you either love or hate the job, you should chose you attitude before you start each day.
Oh and I guess it depends what base your at, personally I dont like the STN crewroom, far too big and too many people but the base sup is really nice, I like EMA where im based, but I guess thats just personal.
One of my friends at STN told be that Ryanair was thinking of doing 3 shifts, so it can start doing 24hr operations. Anyone know when this is going to start?
Oh and I guess it depends what base your at, personally I dont like the STN crewroom, far too big and too many people but the base sup is really nice, I like EMA where im based, but I guess thats just personal.
One of my friends at STN told be that Ryanair was thinking of doing 3 shifts, so it can start doing 24hr operations. Anyone know when this is going to start?
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please can you tell me if you have been selected for ryan air and if so did you get through the training course and do you know if a firm called CAVOK are involved, my daughter has been selected and asked to go to spain for the training, is it a con? would be very grateful if you could enlighten me ......
thank you.....
thank you.....
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I did my training a few months ago at Stansted with St James. But my training who was great had teached a class in Madrid and said how badly it was run. My advice would be for you to send your CV to St James or one of the other English courses. Might I add St James does the 4 weeks course aswell most others are 5 weeks, so it would be cheaper aswell. If you want any advise, feel free to private message me.
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hi lee my name is steve I've recently been excepted for a st james cabin crew course but have no idea what the inital exam is or about. could you please help me if possible or ask some one you may know
cheers steve
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hi there could you give some advice
my name is steve. I wondered what you thought of the people who work as stansted as I have been excepted on a st james cabin crew but havn't been able to get on their intranet or been given any idea what the intial exam about could you give the new man a hand?
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i typed this in 5 mins so bad spelling ( 85WPM)haha
i know when you wana become cabin crew you want to fly and all the glam glam , well this company is no glam glam job ,
i worked in dublin base but did a few days and overnights in other bases , such a CRL bad base , MRS another bad base , ( ryanair flys in old army airports apart from the odd few,madrid etc etc ) and your miles way from everything , so of you dont get based in the majors ones your life is just so boring
i worked for them for 10 months nd they are the worst.
Avg working week 70 hours
avg flights per week 23-30
Avg pay per month 1450+ commission
you work 6 days on early and then you have two days off and then 6 days lates and 3 dys off , (dublin + cork base only ) all other bases its five two five three .
let me just give you a typical day in the life of a ryanair cabin crew member
EARLYS shifts
so you wake up at 3.30 am and have to report for your briefing at about five (times vary) ( you will be asked safety question and meet your crew which you need to know or you will be offloaded)
you could be doing Dublin Manchester , Manchester Dublin, Dublin newcastle, newcastle dublin, dublin prestwick, prestwick dublin ,(aka on your roster as 6 sectors ) ( dub- man-dub-ncl-dub-pik-dub)
you are doing 6 drinks services, 6 boarding , 6 disinbarkments , 6 demos, a million gashs ( rubbish collection ) scratch cards bus tickets and what ever other money pinching ideas. 6 take off's 6 landings , a million pa' once you know the Pa most of the no 1's let you do them and if your irish you will always do them coz some of the polish dont like doing them so you will have no choice.
you must count everything on board the ac when you get on at the start of your shift and everything when you finish, so were talking about 5 bar boxes full of sandwiches and other crap , and 5 trolly's ,
there are four crew on board the ac , two front and two rear , if you get **** crew your day is ruined or even a bad number 1. on your last flight which could be a prestwick (pik) the flight is something like 20 while in the cruise ,so you need to get your drinks done scratch cards done , gash done, all the other stuff. then you have to count the bars and then count the money from you made that day. euros and pound.
so you could land at 4.30 that after noon and you would have to go back to the crew room sign in the bars , go to the base supervoiser and show him your inflight report and blah blah blah
so your not getting hom till like 6 pm , by the time you get home all you want to do is sleep ,and you have to be back up to do it all again the very next day .
you get your roster online and all your memo www.crewdock.com is for ryanair cabin crew , we get all our updates for policys and training materials . so you get your roster for the month but online 1 week is set and cant be changed unless they leave an note in your pigeon hole.
i did alot of extra days for them and they are meant to give them back to you , and they dont.
no ones cares about anyone , manement dont like you and walk all over you if you let them,, they are WAN#$%ers,no joke ,
I'm a very nice person but this company just took everything from me , then ran me so far into the ground it was unreal.
you have to pay for everything , they don't pay for one thing, its just money money money , after paying for everything during your training and not been payed , you still have to work one month (back month) and when you do get payed the next month its like ( 700euro) which will go on your bills and leave you with 10 to feed yourself for the month , you will to make you way to and from work , rain snow , 1 am at night, you have no choice to take a cab coz no bus.
i just want to say to anyone who is thinking about going to work for these ppl , is to please make sure you know what your getting yourself in for , i know the buzz of the job will make you go for it , but for your own sake just hold out for a little while longer and apply elsewhere and get a job with a company that will look after you .
i love flying and i love doing the job , but omg they drove me mad ,
remember , **** pay , long hours, paying for everything , including your lunch when your on the ac all day with a shop , bad management , don't care about you, and they take anyone on , my interviewer just said to me when i walked in the door , are you irish ? i said yes , she said do you want this job so bad and i said yes , she said YOU HAVE IT
there was 50 at my interview and 50 ppl got it , now thats saying something , the trainer had to drop 40 people coz they could not speak English good .
JUST SAY AWAY FROM RYANAIR AND WAIT FOR A REAL JOB WITH A PROPER AIRLINE
i worked in dublin base but did a few days and overnights in other bases , such a CRL bad base , MRS another bad base , ( ryanair flys in old army airports apart from the odd few,madrid etc etc ) and your miles way from everything , so of you dont get based in the majors ones your life is just so boring
i worked for them for 10 months nd they are the worst.
Avg working week 70 hours
avg flights per week 23-30
Avg pay per month 1450+ commission
you work 6 days on early and then you have two days off and then 6 days lates and 3 dys off , (dublin + cork base only ) all other bases its five two five three .
let me just give you a typical day in the life of a ryanair cabin crew member
EARLYS shifts
so you wake up at 3.30 am and have to report for your briefing at about five (times vary) ( you will be asked safety question and meet your crew which you need to know or you will be offloaded)
you could be doing Dublin Manchester , Manchester Dublin, Dublin newcastle, newcastle dublin, dublin prestwick, prestwick dublin ,(aka on your roster as 6 sectors ) ( dub- man-dub-ncl-dub-pik-dub)
you are doing 6 drinks services, 6 boarding , 6 disinbarkments , 6 demos, a million gashs ( rubbish collection ) scratch cards bus tickets and what ever other money pinching ideas. 6 take off's 6 landings , a million pa' once you know the Pa most of the no 1's let you do them and if your irish you will always do them coz some of the polish dont like doing them so you will have no choice.
you must count everything on board the ac when you get on at the start of your shift and everything when you finish, so were talking about 5 bar boxes full of sandwiches and other crap , and 5 trolly's ,
there are four crew on board the ac , two front and two rear , if you get **** crew your day is ruined or even a bad number 1. on your last flight which could be a prestwick (pik) the flight is something like 20 while in the cruise ,so you need to get your drinks done scratch cards done , gash done, all the other stuff. then you have to count the bars and then count the money from you made that day. euros and pound.
so you could land at 4.30 that after noon and you would have to go back to the crew room sign in the bars , go to the base supervoiser and show him your inflight report and blah blah blah
so your not getting hom till like 6 pm , by the time you get home all you want to do is sleep ,and you have to be back up to do it all again the very next day .
you get your roster online and all your memo www.crewdock.com is for ryanair cabin crew , we get all our updates for policys and training materials . so you get your roster for the month but online 1 week is set and cant be changed unless they leave an note in your pigeon hole.
i did alot of extra days for them and they are meant to give them back to you , and they dont.
no ones cares about anyone , manement dont like you and walk all over you if you let them,, they are WAN#$%ers,no joke ,
I'm a very nice person but this company just took everything from me , then ran me so far into the ground it was unreal.
you have to pay for everything , they don't pay for one thing, its just money money money , after paying for everything during your training and not been payed , you still have to work one month (back month) and when you do get payed the next month its like ( 700euro) which will go on your bills and leave you with 10 to feed yourself for the month , you will to make you way to and from work , rain snow , 1 am at night, you have no choice to take a cab coz no bus.
i just want to say to anyone who is thinking about going to work for these ppl , is to please make sure you know what your getting yourself in for , i know the buzz of the job will make you go for it , but for your own sake just hold out for a little while longer and apply elsewhere and get a job with a company that will look after you .
i love flying and i love doing the job , but omg they drove me mad ,
remember , **** pay , long hours, paying for everything , including your lunch when your on the ac all day with a shop , bad management , don't care about you, and they take anyone on , my interviewer just said to me when i walked in the door , are you irish ? i said yes , she said do you want this job so bad and i said yes , she said YOU HAVE IT
there was 50 at my interview and 50 ppl got it , now thats saying something , the trainer had to drop 40 people coz they could not speak English good .
JUST SAY AWAY FROM RYANAIR AND WAIT FOR A REAL JOB WITH A PROPER AIRLINE
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Love your last post, so its all true then
Come to easyjet a low fare airline that CARES and LOOKS AFTER their staff, pays well and has management that listen to crew and care about them, and you have busy but fair rosters.
Love your last post, so its all true then
Come to easyjet a low fare airline that CARES and LOOKS AFTER their staff, pays well and has management that listen to crew and care about them, and you have busy but fair rosters.
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irishcabincrew - a hell of a lot of what you say is true with any airline!! getting up at early hours in the morning and getting home late, then getting up early the next day again. our lives do mostly consist of work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep. welcome to the world of flying! obviously some things you mention are obviously ryanair related, but don't be so sure that everything is hunky dory in every other airline. i do hope you find another airline which is more suited to you...but mainly its just the same old moans in a different uniform!
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well i work for etihad at the moment and life is great , am hoping to go to emirates soon tho , even better . i'm attending emirates open day in dubline as i am home on AL , ryanair suck big time , you work for domestic arline nothing like long haul
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Bring your own tea towel to work!
Whilst Ryanair is buying another 3% of Aer Lingus's shares,and it's expanding like no other airline at the moment, we receive memos such as "please be advised that from now on you will have to have your own tea towel in your plonky kit to clean the a/c ovens".
Now i love my job and i wear my wings with pride but i cannot help but laugh when i read the memos, thinking that in one of them we will be requiered to bring our own gash bags or kettles...
i guess it's a smart financial move as providing tea towels to all Ryanair crew will burn a hole in Ryanair's big big big pockets...
Now i love my job and i wear my wings with pride but i cannot help but laugh when i read the memos, thinking that in one of them we will be requiered to bring our own gash bags or kettles...
i guess it's a smart financial move as providing tea towels to all Ryanair crew will burn a hole in Ryanair's big big big pockets...
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why do you clean the ovens anyway? lol we never clean them and to be honest I don't even see the cleaners cleaning them really! might explain why they are so dirty he he! but this is ridiculous!