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Yeah!!!! I got 4 days off over Xmas. 
2 weeks leave and 6 nightstops. (3 of which is 1 out and 1 back) and as requested no LH. Yippee!!!!!
Afternoon JER on 31st so can still have a good night out.
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I can't really decide which I prefer. Love the airbus for its technology especially the AIP (sad but true, beats looking for a call bell light, LOL) Love the 73 for its simplicity.
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My Airbus conversion is on the 4th Dec. Haha. Let me know how it goes...
2 weeks leave and 6 nightstops. (3 of which is 1 out and 1 back) and as requested no LH. Yippee!!!!!
Afternoon JER on 31st so can still have a good night out.
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I can't really decide which I prefer. Love the airbus for its technology especially the AIP (sad but true, beats looking for a call bell light, LOL) Love the 73 for its simplicity.
Tuismile
My Airbus conversion is on the 4th Dec. Haha. Let me know how it goes...
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will do mr!! put my name down for it but dunno if i wanna do it anymore!! lol...but i'll try and remember some of the questions!! lol...is it the 319 or 320 we're trained on or both??
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rest day working
Can someone poss answer a quest for me ASAP????!!!
I want to earn some more money (what's new! lol!) and am up for rest day working....my assport is back with the CSC and I have a day of tomorrow I am willing to work.
Who do I call/am i allowed to call and ask?
and also I have done my SNY flight with BA (have flown on the 737 6 months previous) but do you have to have been there for a certain amount of time before I can do this!? Any help appreciated.....
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I want to earn some more money (what's new! lol!) and am up for rest day working....my assport is back with the CSC and I have a day of tomorrow I am willing to work.
Who do I call/am i allowed to call and ask?
and also I have done my SNY flight with BA (have flown on the 737 6 months previous) but do you have to have been there for a certain amount of time before I can do this!? Any help appreciated.....
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Can someone poss answer a quest for me ASAP????!!!
I want to earn some more money (what's new! lol!) and am up for rest day working....my assport is back with the CSC and I have a day of tomorrow I am willing to work.
Who do I call/am i allowed to call and ask?
and also I have done my SNY flight with BA (have flown on the 737 6 months previous) but do you have to have been there for a certain amount of time before I can do this!? Any help appreciated.....
Paxy XX
I want to earn some more money (what's new! lol!) and am up for rest day working....my assport is back with the CSC and I have a day of tomorrow I am willing to work.
Who do I call/am i allowed to call and ask?
and also I have done my SNY flight with BA (have flown on the 737 6 months previous) but do you have to have been there for a certain amount of time before I can do this!? Any help appreciated.....
Paxy XX
However they won't give any rest day working unless it's been advertised on crewlink/memos. When they need people they usually nag you in every way possible and the message usually says "put your name down with the duty managers".
The fact that you do not have your passport means that you would only get called for a domestic flight in the end, however it can be a bit restrictive for crew ops so there's a chance they won't call you after all.
I do not know if they are looking for rest day working for this week-end the way to know it is to log on to crewlink and have a look
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I do have my passport now its ready for collection at csc - its been to the us embassy on hols! lol! So as there's no msg I take it i can't call up and ask!?
Thanks 4 yr help neway...X X
Thanks 4 yr help neway...X X
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Don't worry, you won't get into trouble for something like that!!!
Although they might have a giggle
after a few months usually the enthusiasm/energy slows down and crew get more attached to their days off 
One thing I would like to say though is to make sure that you have the minimum legal rest if you apply for rest day working, that is they will refuse it if for example an extra day's work means you do not get a 2 consecutive days off in any 14day period. Also the number of early/late starts allowed must be considered and rest in between....BA are being closely monitored these days by the CAA and if you do something illegal it's their responsibility as much as it's yours. Just be careful, keep our Scheme in mind and you'll be fine
Although they might have a giggle
after a few months usually the enthusiasm/energy slows down and crew get more attached to their days off One thing I would like to say though is to make sure that you have the minimum legal rest if you apply for rest day working, that is they will refuse it if for example an extra day's work means you do not get a 2 consecutive days off in any 14day period. Also the number of early/late starts allowed must be considered and rest in between....BA are being closely monitored these days by the CAA and if you do something illegal it's their responsibility as much as it's yours. Just be careful, keep our Scheme in mind and you'll be fine
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Regarding your Passport the Dms also hold them so they may have your passport their as CSC is closed at weekends !
If your putting your name on the Volunteer list for the Airbus you will also be trained on 319 , both version of 320's and the 321 !
If your putting your name on the Volunteer list for the Airbus you will also be trained on 319 , both version of 320's and the 321 !
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The airbus used to do some domestic night stops during the winter but to be honest last winter I got the same number of domestic night stops as who is trained on the airbus with the added bonus that a few times on a sunday morning, for example, I had to position on the A320 going to ABZ or EDI (as I was not trained on the bus) to be able to operate the first service on the monday morning on the 737. Also money-wise you get more with international flights/nightstops as you do not have duty free on board the domestic flights.
Some buses are nice and newer than the 737s, are cleaner and crew tend to like them, however some A320 are very old (the G-BUSx series those without winglets to give you a better idea) dirty, and falling apart just like the 737-300s so even there really it's just a matter of how lucky you are on the day.
You also tend to have more sby's on your roster and tend to be the last one to get called out when on airport sby as there might always be a Bus that needs an extra crew and you're the one who is trained.
So really I believe the "benefit" is just whether you want to do it or not.
I personally applied for it 2 years ago one day when I was feeling very low and thought it would be "somethign new" however was happy when the spaces got filled with the person just above me in the list!! I used to work on the bus for a previous airline and I hated it so much (especially the A321) that I actually celebrated when they took me off it to put me on the 767!!
I was constantly getting stranded everywhere on them, but this is just my personal point of view, I am sure many people who are on the bus will have lots of good things to tell you, and it might also be that BA maintain their bus fleet better than the airline I used to work for.
Whatever you decide I hope you'll enjoy flyign for BA
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PAxagent,
HAving been on the airbus from the start at LGW, I can highly recommend it.
If it is doing any nightstops at all, then by definition more nightstops will be available to you. I have spent the last two years doing EDI nightstops which are highly enjoyable. Then last winter there were MAN layover days, and MAN split duty nightstops.
The aircraft itself is always clean, brighter, and they have screens for showing the demo, a real bonus. I never saw the inside of a A320 or an A321 so I wouldn't worry about those.
Rumours are, they are going to be nightstopping in EDI again. From what I understand,it has to be somewhere where LHR also nightstop for engineering purposes. So MAN, EDI, GLA, ABZ, AMS are the likely candidates.
I reckon FBW has too much of a soft spot for the B737 for some reason.
HAving been on the airbus from the start at LGW, I can highly recommend it.
If it is doing any nightstops at all, then by definition more nightstops will be available to you. I have spent the last two years doing EDI nightstops which are highly enjoyable. Then last winter there were MAN layover days, and MAN split duty nightstops.
The aircraft itself is always clean, brighter, and they have screens for showing the demo, a real bonus. I never saw the inside of a A320 or an A321 so I wouldn't worry about those.
Rumours are, they are going to be nightstopping in EDI again. From what I understand,it has to be somewhere where LHR also nightstop for engineering purposes. So MAN, EDI, GLA, ABZ, AMS are the likely candidates.
I reckon FBW has too much of a soft spot for the B737 for some reason.
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maybe, but it might be for a totally different reason from what you might think!! My very first flight was on a BA 737 (200) from GOA to LGW and that was what struck me!! Love at first flight, as I say!!! I knew back then that was what I wanted to do and where I wanted to be, and ten years later, the day of the 10th anniversary of my very first flight, I was in Cranebank doing 737 evacuation exams!! ( Gosh I am such a romantic person I am almost moved by my own words
)I also was unlucky enough to have an emergency landing on an A321 and that adds up to the many times I got stuck somewhere because of "software faults", I got sick because of turbulence (much worse for me on any airbus) so if you add all these things you might understand why I hate it!!!!
It's nice to see that you and other people have a different opinion, "the world is beautiful because it's varied" we say in Italy, it just works so well that we're not all obliged to fly on it and the people who volunteer are actually given the chance
I am just jealous of you guys now flying on the 777, that was the very first aircraft I ever worked on and by far the best of my career,I have been dying to get back on it but of course now that I could I can't (all HIS fault
)Whatever ppl say about the poor 737 (it stinks, it's falling apart and other lovely sweet things) it's by far the simplest and easiest aircraft to work on, day in day out...
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I'm with you on that on flybywire.
I flew on the 737-300 and 700 AT EZY, they are tough little buggers! The old ones we had were like the BA ones now, old and smelly and always tech, but they the a/c with character.
I'm now on the 777 at LGW and love it. It is very crew friendly (apart from the stowages un the sink in the front galley), quiet and so much room!
I flew on the 737-300 and 700 AT EZY, they are tough little buggers! The old ones we had were like the BA ones now, old and smelly and always tech, but they the a/c with character.
I'm now on the 777 at LGW and love it. It is very crew friendly (apart from the stowages un the sink in the front galley), quiet and so much room!
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New Gatwick routes for BA next summer
BA NEWS INTERACTIVE 20/11/06
British Airways is to start new routes from London Gatwick to Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, Dresden in Germany and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina from March 2007.
Flights to Port of Spain will operate three flights each week via Barbados on a Boeing 777.
The airline has signed a codeshare agreement with Caribbean Airlines whose flight code will be placed on British Airways’ services to Port of Spain, Barbados and Antigua. Caribbean Airlines’ customers will be able to redeem frequent flyer rewards on these British Airways’ services.
There will be daily flights to Dresden and three flights each week to Sarajevo, both of which will be operated by Boeing 737s.
Robert Boyle, commercial director, said: "With the new route to Port of Spain, we will serve ten destinations in the Caribbean including Tobago. Port of Spain is primarily a business destination due to its oil and gas industry but there is a thriving leisure market as well. We also welcome Caribbean Airlines as our latest codeshare partner.
“Dresden is an important cultural, political and economic centre while Sarajevo is undergoing economic redevelopment and is the gateway to tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
Two new BA routes start this winter. On December 1, 2006, the airline will start flying from London Heathrow to Calgary in Canada with five flights each week. On the same day, a new service from London Gatwick to Salzburg in Austria will start with five flights each week.
Flights from London Gatwick to Athens, Kiev, Newcastle and Riga will be suspended from March 2007. Services from London Heathrow to Athens, Kiev and Newcastle are unaffected.
British Airways is to start new routes from London Gatwick to Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, Dresden in Germany and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina from March 2007.
Flights to Port of Spain will operate three flights each week via Barbados on a Boeing 777.
The airline has signed a codeshare agreement with Caribbean Airlines whose flight code will be placed on British Airways’ services to Port of Spain, Barbados and Antigua. Caribbean Airlines’ customers will be able to redeem frequent flyer rewards on these British Airways’ services.
There will be daily flights to Dresden and three flights each week to Sarajevo, both of which will be operated by Boeing 737s.
Robert Boyle, commercial director, said: "With the new route to Port of Spain, we will serve ten destinations in the Caribbean including Tobago. Port of Spain is primarily a business destination due to its oil and gas industry but there is a thriving leisure market as well. We also welcome Caribbean Airlines as our latest codeshare partner.
“Dresden is an important cultural, political and economic centre while Sarajevo is undergoing economic redevelopment and is the gateway to tourism in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
Two new BA routes start this winter. On December 1, 2006, the airline will start flying from London Heathrow to Calgary in Canada with five flights each week. On the same day, a new service from London Gatwick to Salzburg in Austria will start with five flights each week.
Flights from London Gatwick to Athens, Kiev, Newcastle and Riga will be suspended from March 2007. Services from London Heathrow to Athens, Kiev and Newcastle are unaffected.
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Oh my God, No more Newcastle from LGW March 07! 
Won't miss Athens, Kiev or Riga.
As for 777 routes, Port of Spain via Barbados? Does this mean no more night stopping in Barbados????
DRAMA!!!!
Won't miss Athens, Kiev or Riga.
As for 777 routes, Port of Spain via Barbados? Does this mean no more night stopping in Barbados????
DRAMA!!!!
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Hi there,Great news to hear that they are planning more long haul routes from LGW to compensate the shortfall of nightstops in the European routes from LGW. I am coming down to SFG on the 19th of December and probably that is the first good news I received on the last 2 weeks regarding SFG, when I got my roster last week I was socked
2 flights and lotS of sby for 2 weeks
. What is the situation down there too many crew and not that many flights? I heard on the Galley FM that is not specific room for the airport sby like our colleagues at LHR Short Hall, they have a quite room equipated with the appropiated rest furnitures please can you clarified all that rumours
2 flights and lotS of sby for 2 weeks . What is the situation down there too many crew and not that many flights? I heard on the Galley FM that is not specific room for the airport sby like our colleagues at LHR Short Hall, they have a quite room equipated with the appropiated rest furnitures please can you clarified all that rumours