British Airways - Wannabes & Recruitment III

[flapsforty]

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[bencat27]

Urgh!

I'm so nervous now about tomorrow I keep waking up every 5 minutes. This is getting ridiculous now. I need to be awake in 4 hours, honestly, I annoy myself so much when I have too much to worry about and can't sleep.

Anyone else who has their assessment tomorrow good luck. I am sure we will all do well in the end!

[FlyingBoi]

Good luck Ben, you'll be fine, let all us fellow wannabes how it goes.

[EGHI]

however how easy is it to transfer between the two

It's a rather complex process and the subject of much debate. There are just under 200 people transferring from LGW to LHR Eurofleet over the Summer but they are all rather senior and have been at LGW for a long time. As from transferring from LHR to LGW - I'm not sure how long that would take or whether, in fact, anybody actually does!

Good luck.

[Middle Mate]

EGHI

Thanks so much for replying. I will just wait and see what happens.

[dazednconfused]

I am in the middle of filling out my application for Heathrow Long haul.. anyone got any tips on how to answer the questions? Particularily the first one..

Thanks

[Middle Mate]

Is that where they ask about challenges BA currently face etc? I just wrote about open skies, the new runway they are trying to get and the problems with T5, but then I applied to LGW, so not sure if questions are a little different.

[bencat27]

Gosh

Is it odd that I actually enjoyed the interview? The two ladies were so lovely and made me feel so at ease. I messed up the group task because I didn't really contribute much, but I found it difficult trying to say stuff as the other 3 kept talking and wouldn't really let me say much/said things that I wanted to say before I had a chance too. That was rather infuriating. But the 2-1 was quite good fun actually. Hopefully I came across well and happy and pleasant. We shall see. I will hopefully find out if I was successful or not in the next 5 days odd. I was so nervous at first but they really do make you feel at ease and the interview room chairs are very comfy

[Middle Mate]

Well done ben, sounds as if you put everything into it and I'm sure they would have maybe picked up on the others not letting you speak much. What did the task involve?

Good Luck.

[bencat27]

right

The group assessment was something about a holiday company who had £5000 comp to give out to 12 different families, all asking for a certain amount each and you basically have to come up with who should get so and so amount etc and who should get none. They don't mark you on your answers as theres no right answer for it but they mark how you interact with the others. Whether you listened and let others have their say, and that you had a say etc etc etc!

I shall PM you about the interview Q's as I am far too tired to do it now miss flighty. But they do want different answers to the applications Q's because they ask them again.

Good luck you two!
xx

[bencat27]

no

I believe you can only apply for one or the other.

[Middle Mate]

Closing dates for all 3 recruitment drives have been extended

Until the 14th April.

Can I bang my head, I can't stand the wait. Has anyone at all heard anything back from LGW?

I know welshboy and flyingboi both applied to LHR and heard back pretty quick. I know there are a few of us in the same boat waiting for LGW to get back to us.

[Flower Duet.]

LHR or LGW vacancies.

It only takes less then a Minute to check the BA Website!!

4 Steps :
www.ba.com
Careers
Vacancies
Search

Hmmm.. Not hard really !!

[VS-LHRCSA]

LGW has a lower priority than LHR from what I can see - it always did while I was there. With other airlines operating for BA at LGW, the crew shortage isn't a big a problem. They are taking steps by setting up another holding pool for LGW for when the sub-contracts expire and the crew on the transfer lists get to LHR. This will be as the WW temps start to finish their contracts. This will be from around November, so new LGW crew will need to be trained by then, so they would need to be interviewed and approved by around mid-August. It's all one big cycle, does that make sense?

[Middle Mate]

Thanks

It does make perfect sense, it's just the waiting I hate, I did wonder in the beginning if I should have applied for LHR, but went for LGW and I've also read that you can't or shouldn't do 2 applications, so wouldn't want to ruin my chances.

VS-LHRCSA....always good to have a view point from an insider, so thank you very much.

[Flower Duet.]

He does know his stuff ...



oop's or she !!

[FlyingBoi]

???

So bencat, heard anything????

[bencat27]

nope

Nothing as of yet!

[bne_ba86]

Flight Pay Details?

Hi everyone,

I've just recently received a letter confirming that my assessment day was successful (for LGW Cabin Crew) *yay!*, but I have just realised that I forgot to ask the details of our flight pay.

I know some airlines pay their crew from 'chocks on/off', and I was just wondering if anybody knew the details regarding BA's policy? Do they pay for your pre-flight briefing as well? Do we get paid even if the flight is delayed before boarding etc.?

Your help is much appreciated!

[VS-LHRCSA]

You will receive a basic pay which is mentioned in the job spec. This is £10,800ish which works out at around £700 a month after tax.

You will then earn flight pay which varies depending on what sort of flying you bid for. The £500 quoted is about right for LGW. You may even earn more. Just remember during your annual leave you won't earn any flight pay. You are paid from your report time to your clear time, including delays.

It's probably best to put anything you have learned regarding Australian airlines completely out of your mind. It is VERY different here. There are no grooming allowances, taxis home, cancelled accommodation allowance (there used to be), transport allowances, BOC allowances, paxing in Y allowances, rest break allowances, etc.

Flying here is not better or worse, just different. They pay is livable - certainly more than I get in the office. If you can get a house share in the surrounding area or the south coast, you will be fine.