i started as a temp in 2006 and now at LGW! If I could give an advice I d say dont take the temp contract . You will not be getting a seniority for 11 months while others who join well after you will be ahead of you! Seniority is very important in BA. If all you want is 11 months with BA then enjoy it and leave! I chose to take LGW as I didnt have an other job to go to and (please forgive me for this ) but it seemed like H E L L after LHR WW! Very poor money, non existent terms and conditions, BA just does whatever they feel like!I am sure you ll be offered LGW SF after the expiry of your contract as crew leave every day and in need of more at all time but think twice before you commit! I wish I had left and reapplied...too late now of course! Before everyone starts kicking off about my opinion for LGW SF pls this reflects my personal opinion and not an opinion of the crew of LGW SF! My anger is reflected for BA 's attitude towards its employees! Good luck everyone and enjoy your time here at BA!

Im so excited ,
Dont worry about your first day no big suprises come through the door its mainly ice breakers and paper work on your first day !there so nice at cranebank and the trainers are all lovely so please dont worry and enjoy your six weeks of fun and hard work!!!!
your have no life for those six weeks but your make friends for life ;)

Hi, I was successful in becoming a LHRWW temp and start training on December 17th, just wanted to pop in and say hello. On the subject of the contract i'm just looking at it as an amazing 11 months full of experience both in life and work and as to what happens after that i'll wait until the time. Give me a buzz if you're on my course if I missed PM'ing you and see you in December:)

Loganair
 

Hi! Anyone out there know about Loganair? Any info would be much appreciated. Ive been crew before with large airlines and enjoyed being part of a big crew so this job would be a little different I know! Any ideas of roster, salary etc? Thanks...Happy Flying!!!!!

Any news for holding pool???
 

Hey all you exhausted swimmers!!!
Has anyone spoken to recruitment recently at all? It's all been very quiet for weeks and I was wondering what the latest news/rumours are. Maybe it's time to give them another ring to see what they say this time. If noone else has, I'll do it. :confused:

Hi there, I found out I had been successful after having my interview for temp WWF on 8th Oct. I was wondering have you still not heard anything yet ??? I am still waiting and just wondered if this was normal !!!!????

Do you mean that you had your "you got the job" email Oct 8th but you haven't been given a course date yet? Did the email say that you had to wait in the holding pool for a while until new courses become available? If so, be patient!!! I haven't heard anything and my interview was in April!!!!!!

Good luck

I have been reading this thread for a long time now, just to keep up with airline information really, and I think it is disgusting that a lot of you have been put in a hold pool for such a long time. Especially when colleagues of mine have gone for an interview after you and are on training courses now or just about to start!!! I would be seriously questionning what is going on if I were you guys...because it's not professional or acceptable. However, I suspect they get away with it because so many people aspire to be CC for BA....:=

Vodkaholic it is acceptable, it is done in the airline industry the whole world over not just BA. The airline industry is very different to any other. If you cant accept that things are different in this industry I would strongly reccomend you look elsewhere for employment.
The only other alternative for BA to do would be to say to the candidates "sorry no jobs, try again next time" surely the holding pool is a better alternative?

Hi Missdoo - Re LHREF hold pool
 

:} Greetings from JAWS.... faithfull swimmer....

:ugh: NO NEWS YET :ugh:

I rang them (International call) up last month and was told that we would get a course before MAY. I just can't afford to keep on calling, so if you ring them please let me know what's going....

Thanks.

DAWN :confused:

Hi Dawn!!!

I didn't realise you lived abroad!!! Where do you live?
I'll give them a ring tomorrow and see what I get. I suspect they'll probably more or less tell me where to go but I'll try anyway!!!

We'll be ever so fit after all this swimming for months:)

I had the email saying that I had been successful and was now in a holding pool. In the interview they basically said LHR WW was short staffed and we would be there as cover for the 11 months. I thought they would want us pretty much straight away. Reading the messages in this forum though, I wondered if anyone else who had their interview to say they had been successful but are now in the holding pool, have you had any further info??? I am in a position where I have to give a longer than normal notice period(3 months). The 6 weeks they talk about in the 'email' is not long enough so I have made the desision to hand in my notice now so that when I leave my current job (end of Jan 08) hopefully I will have heard something by then !!! I really dont want to miss this opportunity !!

Ww Heathrow
 

Hi I also had my interview on the 8th and have been told that i was successful...........but no news on a course date as yet, from what has been posted on here it appears that it is only the Friday group who have not yet received course dates...............Fingers crossed that we hear something soon!!

LGWSF / LHREF holdpool
 

Anyone heard from recruitment lately??? Its all gone very quiet.... :confused::confused::confused:

you are of course right. a holding pool is a much better alternative than saying "no you didnt get the job" or "we dont currently have any jobs". if you read my post, this is not what i was disputing.

i think the process of interviewing people and giving them a training course straight away while there are still people in a holding pool is unnacceptable.

i have been working in this industry a long time. i know that holding pools CAN be part of the industry for certain airlines. but this is a time when it seems not to be working.

sorry if you misread my post. sometimes its difficult to make it clear what you want to say on forums. :)

Believe me you will be far better off in the long run if you are offered a perm contract with BA rather than temp contract. Mostly because your seniority will start from day one, this is soo important at BA. I just attended a classroom day at BA and we were told the temps would not be kept on because they would be acruing hours of flying. It is much more beneficial for BA to recruit brand new crew with zero hours than it is to take on crew that already have hours building up. This way they have no issues with hours for new crew for a good 12 months.
Hold on in there guys, it's worth the wait!

T ;)

Don't forget to include the time of training and annual leave. It's very difficult to crew 900 hours for a period of nine to ten months. And, whether it's more beneficial for BA to recruit new people. Doubtful. Take into consideration how much it costs BA to train one single person. There you go. Anything could happen at BA ("No, we won't recruit any more to LHR and all recruitment will be done through LGW", to mention one example) and I would be very surprised if they actually let go of the temps recruited after their contract.

I had my interview on the Monday 8th Oct in the morning? Has anyone else who had their interview on that day heard anything yet ??? I am tempted to give them a call but dont want to be too pushy!! :)

Ef Holding Pool
 

For all you swimmers in the EF holding pool saga, I rung recruitment today , they were very nice and polite as in they didnt "tell me where to go", but I got absolutely nothing from them. They said they have no idea what's going on, there are rumours of short haul courses in January for redeployed staff and maybe April for external canditates (cutting it VERY close). Apparently our job offer expires a year after our interview day and not the day of our acceptance email. THIS IS SO UNFAIR for me as mine was in APRIL!!!!!! Oh God!!!!!!:uhoh:

Hi missdoo - Re LHREF hold pool
 

Please... take a deep breath..... and carry on swimming.... don't make assumptions because as they told you they are not sure....

It's not the first time People in the Hold pool get their course in the "12th month" and remember BA can decide to overlook this fact if they wish......

Please hold on to your fins.... and take a hold of yourself. Don't drown before you have a definite answer from BA.

Hang in there....
Devout swimmer
JAWS :}