Qantas QCCA - Wannabes & Recruitment

[travellerslife]

Yes Tony, waiting waiting.....especially difficult if, like me, you are unhappy in your current job
Fingers crossed we'll hear sooner rather than later.
For now, glad to hear any news/rumours that will give us a clearer picture of where QF are at with their recruitment for Syd base.

[Tony.S]

Will be sure to post any news and updates I hear.
Hope we are not waiting a couple of years!!

Hey guys I've noticed that the frequency of A380 flights from Melbourne to London (via Singapore) are increasing from the week of 18 Jan and from Melbourne to LA they increase from the week of 31 Jan.. They must be needing more crew for those increased flights.. Hope Melbourne interviews start up soon to accommodate for that!

[travellerslife]

Increased number of flights

I have just checked and notice the same thing for Sydney - good news for both bases. Anyone know how long the recruitment & training process takes all up?? I am thinking it must be at least 2 months from initial contact to your first flight?? If so, working backwards from Feb I would expect the recruitment process to start again fairly soon?

[ANstar]

They are also reducing crew numbers on the A380 so that may delay recruitment??

[Tainlovestofly]

atravellerslife I think it'd be way longer than 2 months before your first flight. Considering recruitment can be lengthy with checking references and taking medicals, then waiting for ground school to start, then ground school typically being 6-7 weeks I think. And only then would you start flying. And I have heard how new Qantas recruits have finished ground school and then waiting, on reserve, for more than a month to start flying.

It isn't a quick process from what I've heard and experienced myself.

[Tony.S]

Depending if they have the crew to accommodate those new flights already by January and February, I think they will be starting to interview closer to November/December. Once that takes place then yeah, medicals need to be done and other admin things will take up more time but I dont think training will be 6-7 weeks. It says on this link that training is actually a 10 day course over 2 weeks. http://mybookingmanager.com/projects...menttoQCCA.pdf That seems quite short as I did 4 weeks with Emirates (2 for SEP, 1 for First Aid, and 2 for service) But considering QF dont teach First Aid in their training and there is less aircrafts to learn, 2 weeks sounds like enough. I think it will be closer to the end of the year before anything starts up again.. hoping they dont ALREADY have enough crew on hold..

[KK1000]

I know some people who started ground school early august and are only just starting to fly as of the past couple of weeks so i believe it was 6-8 weeks ground school. and longer if you want to go straight into business & first class - extra few weeks in service training

Tony I had a read through that link you posted, looks to me like an overview of transferring from MAM to QCCA, hence the 10 day course as MAM employees already work for qantas

[Tony.S]

Ahhhhhh damn. Whoa thats quite long training then. So if people that went through ground school in August are just flying now then they might be the crew covering the first increase in flights??

[travellerslife]

Friend of a friend finished ground school early Sep and had his first flight within the week...

[Tony.S]

How long was the process for your friend? From hearing from them to recruitment day to ground school etc??

[travellerslife]

Training timeline

Don't have much info (friend of a friend kinda thing) but I believe it was about 1 month between job acceptance & start of ground school, and ground school took 7 weeks from day 1 to graduation. Then, as I mentioned, flying within a week. No idea how long the actual recruitment took though…I guess everyone is different but based on those dates you would be looking at AT LEAST 3 months between intital contact from QF to first flight - if you are lucky enough to be flying that soon after graduation!

[KK1000]

Tony they aren't recruiting at the moment, though some current QCCA crew say end of OCT others say nov but apparently the ground schools wont be starting till beginning of next year, they wont run them through christmas. Im hanging out for it too I registered in July but because I procrastinated I missed the May recruitment. Waiting patiently for my time!

[travellerslife]

MX Ad

My friend saw a QF advert in the job section of Sydney MX yesterday - she has no idea what it was for though (might not have even been FAs), all she remembers is that it mentioned the Hilton. Does anyone have a copy they can check?

[Beatac]

Sydney MX mag

Hi Travellerslife,

I have never heard of the mag, are they available from Newsagencies? Is it called exactly that 'Sydney MX'?

[travellerslife]

MX is the free paper that they give out in Sydney/Melbourne (maybe BNE as well?).

[travellerslife]

MX False Alarm

Another friend also saw the ad, a much more observant friend I should add. It was for Qatar, not QF. So if you're not fussy and don't mind the move...!

[KK1000]

Qantas are hiring for UK base, so it might have been QCCA but UK not australia. they are doing assessment days in syd, mel and bne

[Tony.S]

Thanks KK1000, Yeah it makes sense they start ground school in the new year. No time at all to recruit and start and finish training in the next 2.5 months.

[Beatac]

Qatar is not for me, so wont be hunting that mag down! It may very well have been been for them, as they do have an upcoming recruitment day. I believe Qantas UK have finished recruiting (I'm waiting for the final ok from them), plus they don't hold the days at the hilton.

Good luck to all!

[LoveToFly222]

EK - QF

Hi All!

Does anyone know from experience or heard around the traps how Qantas/Virgin feel about hiring ex EK crew for international? I love the job, but will be looking to move back home to Melbourne and I want to keep flying.

Any info would be great!

Thanks