cityjet questions

[johnrizzo2000]

cityjet!

do you need to be able to speak french to work for cityjet? how long is their training course aswell, and is the pay any good?

[cityjet]

Hi

Its 6 weeks initial training, pay packet is very favourable, though you seem to get a better deal based out in Paris than in Dublin. Dublin crew are always away from home 4, 3 or 1 night trips, tiring.
Paris always home overnights but only 1 nighters.
Get fantastic concessions as we are attached to Air france.
You dont have to speak french but its favoured.
You get basic salary of around 1300eur per month
then premiums for flying, which is about 1300eur per month tax free.
Not bad for a junior.
We are expanding big time this year, they looking for crew. Its a great little airline, great ambiance.

Ciao

Cityjet

[johnrizzo2000]

Cityjet sounds good!

I might try it when i'm finished university! i'd like to fly sooner, but it would have to be charter, as not many airlines take on summer staff! 6 weeks training would be too long, just to stay a couple of months! i'll stick to my ground ops job for now!

[xana]

hello citijet!
you said your company's planning to expand... do you know of any new routes/new aircraft/how many new entrants are they taking for cabin crew? and also, can you give us like an example roster that you get for us to have an idea? and what other benefits do you have, e.g. staff travel - do you travel for free on both air france and cityjet? i would realllly appreciate that very much i'd love to know!
my french is really quite bad... but i can manage. if they base you in paris, will you have to speak french obligatorily or not really? because my french really is very basic...
thanks in avance
xana

[Freo]

Experience Level

Anyone know what CityJet require by way of experience for an F/O?

[ElNino]

Anyone know what CityJet require by way of experience for an F/O?

CPL/IR and minimum hours required for issue of same. That's it. Most of pilots started at this level. If you have more hours, it's an advantage. There's something of an experience deficit with FO's at the moment, not many are near command type.

do you know of any new routes/new aircraft/how many new entrants are they taking for cabin crew?

RJ85's arriving in the autumn. 20 I think, plus 5 of the antiques will remain, bringing fleet to 25, so new routes are to be expected. Probably a lot of cc required, the turnover is quite high.

my french is really quite bad

It used not be, but I believe a certain level of French is now obligatory for cc.
It doesn't matter in this repect whihc base your're in. If you're DUB based, most of your work is ex-Paris anyway.

staff travel - do you travel for free on both air france and cityjet? i

Not for free, you get full R2 (standby) and R1 (confirmed staff fare) concessions on AF and WX. Standby also on a load of other carriers. The staff travel is very very good.