Terminal 2 Fire Assembly Point
 

Right got it, what are you wearing, I was just going to wear jeans, but am going to wear some smart/cas black linen trousers now instead, even outfir planning is stressful!

What time are you going to the airport??

I'm so excited, but kinda scared!!

One and a bit days to go!!:D

just a quick comment, if you watch the youtube video of EK the girl on their who has just arrived in dubai s wearing jeans and a t shirt and looks very casual??? just a thought was reading through the comments. i dont know what to wear, my fly out date isnt until the 7th december but uve all got me thinking :) xxx anyone else 7th dec???

what kind of clothes do you wear over there on nights out and in the day? holiday clothes or what we would here?

becky :)

beckyr
 

where are you flying from becky i'm leaving december 14th from gatwick

manchester on 7th i think, only just submitted my medicals but everything on them was fine and nothing was wrong, what about you? you got the final yes or still waiting?

xxxx

12 october
 

12 oct team we wish you an safe and happy landing at DXB int. airport......:ok:

plugs
 

The electrical points are the UK type (3 rectangular pins)

Well, 2 months now since my final interview and still nothing...so I just called them AGAIN today. Couldn't really hear much because it was a bad line, but they said something about not receiving my files, but then said I should get a call definately before Tuesday in regards to medicals etc...
So, now I've really got my hopes up, just like last time I called they said I would get a call within a week, but this time she PROMISED before Tuesday...I'm gonna be so angry if I don't get that call :mad:

2 MONTHS!!!!!!!! The waiting is really killing me. I think at least 2 years have been shaved off my life from all this waiting..

Nov 16th
 

by the way
 

juzz,
i dont have their number...can you private message it to me please!!
thanks

medicals, money and fulfillment
 

Hi there! These questions are for everyone but most specially addressed to those who are already on board and working with emirates...

I just submitted my medicals a week ago and got an email from HR confirming receipt of my email. Im not expecting them to reply so soon after reading your posts plus my joining date is next Jan. But while waiting (anxiously!), I would like to pose the these q's to help me decide if this is really for me (that is, if I passed my medicals)

BTW, do applicants still get rejected at this stage even if your medical results are okay? Also, once they ask you to fly to Dubai, can they still send you back home and on what grounds? does anyone know of any "tragic" story like this?

More q's...
MONEY
a) if the basic is around 3,700dhs + another 3,700 dhs for your flying hours (is this correct) + allowances, how much is your net income? estimate please.
b) when do you get a salary increase and by how much?
c) how much are your average expenses in dubai. Emirates pay for everything except for food right?
d) how much do you get to save

CAREER
a) how fast do you get promoted
b) is politics difficult? do you have to "kiss up" to some people


BENEFITS
a) how much discount do they give on tickets for you and your family
b) do your travel dependents have to be on standby if they use the id tickets

LAYOVERS
a) how long do you get to spend in nice cities such as PARIS, LONDON, AUSTRALIA, NEW YORK?
b) When can you start bidding for flights. what are the most difficult flights to swap

PEOPLE
a) what is the culture in Emirates?

Your answers would be much appreciated. thanks!!!

Hey!

Dress code for the flight to Dubai is casual, meaning
jeans, polo shirt or something, nothing revealing for girls, just regular. I don't think flying is sweat pants and flip flops is a good idea, but just casual. Shirt with labels like "who the F*** is D&G" wouldn't be a good idea := So just be plain, simple and casual. A friend of mine left last week, he was wearing a polo and jeans, with sneakers he is all good.

Well oct 12 team! Have a safe flight, i'll be in at 23:40 in DXB from Athens...

can't wait!!

illy

Juzz51
 

Thank you loads for the numbers...if by the end of the month i dont hear from them i will definitely give them a call...i hope though, that they will call me before i have to.....

12-OCT TEAM !!!
Have a safe flight and best of luck in your new career.

Same to me:E

We are all reaching DXB in the morning. Some more needles :ouch: and that's it !!!

I hope i dont end up in some trouble with my jeans!!! :eek::eek::eek:

Hope to see each and have a real great time and make a rocking TEAM...

See you all in DXB: Future bees and already bees

Long time listener first time caller
 

Hi Guys,

Congratulations to everyone who just left / is leaving soon... I just submitted my application and am hoping to be invited to Sydney interviews.

One question tho, with the low base complemented with allowances, does anyone know, in the first few months of flying, do you get stuck on the relatively short haul routes and turnarounds meaning no layover allowance and just turnaround flights to BEY DEL BOM KHI etc. ?

John

21 December Team
 

Hi everyone I got my call yesterday!!! Booked in for my medicals next Monday it all is well Im leaving on 21/12............... so excited.

xx

RE: application
 

Hi everyone I have a query and was hoping someone could help me out.

I have already filled in the online application for cabin crew but having logged into the site again today I have realised that in the education section it asks for the highest education gained and then asks to list all the relevant education you have gained. For UK qualifications does this mean the GCSE's and "A" levels you have done? And if so how can it be inputted as it does not ask for subject or level, eg GCSE or "A"level?

Also having filled in the online application, once submitted do we get an email confirmation to say they have received the applicaiton? And any idea how long it takes before you hear of the outcome?

Sorry to be a pain.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hello guys,
just a quick last post before I set off to airport.
My flight is at 8:50GMT.
Just frantically doing last minute things.

Will miss you, and will try to update my blog with all experiences I had today. Also will try to chat up the crew, make them spill the beans!!!

Take Care guys!

Unlucky macphisto! Keep Trying.
Keep Discovering. Fly Emirates. I think I will tattoo that on my back and with the coporate logo! lol "Loyalty beyond the limits"
Petiks: Try putting them Questions on annie8886.wordpress.com

Ok, Im leaving right now. Got a box of Kleenex tissues to wipe them tears lol!

Good Day

Hello
Arrived at Man Airport safely.
Just found a spare staff computer in the Staff Room thanks to my old Staff ID card!
Cried loads. Kissed goodbye to all my staff. Few hours to go yet.

Write later...

hope you get there ok ccmad!!!

i will see you in december!

:)

was everything ok on your medicals or are you worrying? im submitting all mine monday once ive collected the audiograph x

everything is fine on mine all above normal so i shudnt need to worry right???

xxxxx

hey polski....

it took them a week to get back to me saying that they had received my meds...so be patient i guess.
oh, i had to reduce my scan file sizes a lot for them to get emailed, buecause my originals kept on getting sent back to me.

check your inbox and make sure that they were delivered!

Hello
Just got time to say hello
Can't post in detail coz a)its 10:58 and Im knackered b)this cafe is expensive
and c) I gotta wake up at 5 in the morning

So just to say Im enjoying it so far. Had medical talks etc today blah blah

Try to post later.

Enjoy

New Recruit
 

Hey all...
I am new to this forum, but since I started sending applications to airlines back at the end of August I have been using Cabincrew.com and I thought I would join this one after reading about all the EK stuff.
The good news is that I received the "Welcome to the Family" phone call last Monday from Emirates and I have been on cloud 9 ever since! :O
I guess I am on the January 11th batch who is due to leave as that is when my joining date is. I have started my medicals and all should be done and sent off by the end of this coming week (fingers crossed nothing bad pops up!).
As for the whole process of getting the job, the assessment day was physically and emotionally exhausting but looking back, I had a wonderful day and met some great people. From 50, they narrowed us down to 9 and I had my final interview which I felt went horribly wrong as I made the Recruitment Officer's laugh :ugh: Anyhow just under two weeks, I was being rung to say that I had been accepted. Therefore you can never make assumptions about EK, they can make you wait 6 weeks and say yes or no, or alternatively under two weeks and say yes or no. It has to do with luck as well as I was rejected by both Qantas and Air New Zealand & third time lucky as they say.
Well this message has gone on for far too long and having glanced at all the posts on here, I have loads of questions to ask but my mind has gone blank now. So maybe I'll think of some more later on :cool: Just thought I'd drop by as the newbie on here!
Ali_Xander :ok:

Ali xander
 

hey well done for getting the job!! are you flying from gatwick ??

I'm off in december i just miss xmas at home not looking forward to that i llove christmas.

sounds like you had an quick ride i waited ages to hear i kept getting my photos wrong .

good luck with everything welcome to pprune !

Flight over dress code clarification
 

Hi all,

After reading the posted replies i am still not 100% on what is classed as "smart casual" for the flight over. I would love to wear a nice top/t-shirt (no branding), jeans and funky/nice shoes/runner (eg asics or lacoste etc). However i have read mixed opinions on what is acceptable and what is not.

If someone can clarify what is fine to wear and know for fact the 100% answer to this, i will be very much grateful! Someone who 100% knows and not just an opinion without actual back up to what they think is fine would rock my socks!!

Oh and Mohit.... the other melbourne guy was Rex... ahhh i think his ID in PPRUNE is rex and some numbers after!

Thanks everyone!

:p

Vickster
 

Hey Vicster,
Thanks for the reply.

I just got back from getting more injections from the nurse, I am surprised I am still standing up! :ok:

When are you off in December? I would have gone then but it's too soon and I need to find a job and earn a little before I go as I am absolutely broke! :p

By the way, our contract says we have to bring 20 passport sized photographs and two other normal sized photos - do you know if the latter has to be professionally done wearing a suit over a blue background? or can it just be casual pics like those we sent with the applications?

Thanks!
A;)

juzz51
 

hey, so have you heard back from them today????let me know how that goes..i am still waiting:ugh:

EmiratesCCMad
 

:}lucky lucky you!!i am still waiting for my call....wow!i would do anything to be in your shoes!!!have fun!

J

height requirment
 

hi girls,

i am new here and keen to know about all informantions about f/a. can i ask,do you guys know what the heigh requirment does Emirate required. coz i am only 160cm, i am so interested to be a f/a. their web says 212cm for arm reach,but do you required it strictly? looking forward to your answers...

Nah, still haven't heard from them. They said by Tuesday, so I'm gonna wait until the late afternoon tomorrow, and if they haven't called by them, I will give them another call. It would be really nice to get the call tomorrow though, what a nice birthday present that would be...:ok:

open day
 

Hi girls,

Congratulations! it looks that so many of you have got the offer and flying to EK. You must done a brilliant job on your interviews.
i've got another questions about open day. can i go to open day directly with resume and 2 size photos after on-line application, or should i have to get an invitation e-mail or call first from EK? really confuse with it!

EID
 

Hi guys, for those of you waiting the "golden call", don't forget that here in the U.A.E. the offices have been closed because of EID, therefore if I were you I wouldn't count on them doing much on this week as now they will have lots of candidates to go through as they just had four days off instead of the usual two.
So, please dont panic and just be patient.

Good luck to everyone !!! :ok:

ali xander
 

hey how are you ?

i'm off on the 14th of december . i'm in the same boat as you i used to work for barclays in portsmouth but quit in august when i heard i got the job . I was working for my parents but i got a bit lazy so i'm looking for a job now as well.

we will need quite a bit of money over there so i need to pull my finger out and get working .

we'll have to keep in touch then and meet when we get there.

I'm really not sure about the pics sorry i havent even thought about taht yet i think they will have to be done at the photographers it says not digital and it siad that on the other pics we had to do for the final interview i'll let you know when i find out .

vicx

ali xander: pics
 

Hi there, I have posted on here about pics before, and as previously said(sorry to bore people) I'm not crew, daughter is, been there just over 1 year.

the 20 pics to take with you, we took of her on our digital camera, in fact all the pics she had to send to Dubai were taken with a digital camera, all beit not a little compact one! Her photo's were fine, in fact we did it because she just didn't have time to get them done profesionally. The 20 pics were the head and shoulder ones, and we printed them off the computer in passport size and just altered the background colour.

I know that they say no digital but they will be fine, but if it makes you feel more at ease get them done at a photographers. I think they are used for your visas and residency permits.

I hope all goes well for you and hope you will enjoy your time there as much as my daughter does now.

Best wishes,
mother hen.

Vickster
 

Hey Vic,

Hope you are well. December seems like a long way away but it will slowly creep up on ya...best start packing!hehe.

As for me, I picked up my medicals this morning from the private clinic in the west end, they are soooo good! I had my eye test and all my other jabs done and all my results from my tests are fine - I worried for some reason as you never know what they may find! I just have my haemoglobin test to get done by the GP now and then it should all be ready to go. I hope they are as quick as they were with getting back to me to about getting the job! :ok:

Yes, it would definitly be good to stay in contact.

Have you been lucky with a job yet? I have an appointment at the Recruitment Agency tomorrow, hopefully they will find me an admin job which will help me earn some money before I go in January. I am hoping to save £1000...thats to pay off my credit card after payinf for all my medicals and then take the rest to DXB. Who knows though as a world class airline seems to want to employ me, yet somewhere like GAP and other retail stores are not having none of it!hehe..weird! :p

Ali

jobs
 

Ali xander: yeah i dropped my cv off to a holiday camp to get temporary work there but no call but DUNE the shoe shop did call me for an interview but it didnt work out it was too far away. I think £1000 is a good figure to take with you. THats what i want to take too. I heard from a friend over there that they give you money when you get there but i've heard so many different things that i'm just going to forget about it and take enough money to live off in the first month .

Mother Hen: thats really helpful yet again from you thanks so much i was going to just pay again to have all those professional pics done but i'll just do what you said now my dad used to be a photographer i'm sure he can handle the passport size pics. hows your daughter ?? do you know when you finish training how easy it is to get a flight back home or how soon something i've been wondering for a while i just really want to know when i can say i'll see my family and frineds next whether its like 2 months or 5 months .....

cheerrs everyone
vicx

vickster
 

Hi there, my daughter is well thanks, she's just finished doing her sep again.....relieved it's all over for another year!

A girl from this forum, naddy is in Dubai now, flew out last Friday, my daughter said she spoke to her today. I think like my daughter she will take a little time to adjust. She contacted my daughter through face book before she left for Dubai.

Re flights: My daughter found it pretty easy to get flights back once she'd graduated(once I had to pick her up from the hotel twice in one week!). She started the begining of September last year and got rostered a flight to Manchester begining of December, I went up on the train to visit her..... I can tell you it was very emotional for me. Then, she managed to swap a flight and came home xmas day night. We were going down the motorway to collect her xmas night! And since then she's been home loads. In fact I only took her back to the airport last monday! She had a few days off so decided to come home for my birthday! So, I have no doubt your family will get to see you on a regular basis. Infact, that's how I know she is settled and happy in Dubai now....she doesn't feel the need to come home quite so often! And loves her weekends in Dubai.

Be prepared to have to adjust.......it might take a little while to get used to your new way of live, but if you can, stick it out for 6 months, if you don't like it by then you never will!

Hope all is going well for you,
best wishes,
mother hen.

Vickster & Mother Hen
 

Vic - I also read on this forum about EK giving us a welcome gift for joining the company and you also get some money which they then delete from you salary. I do not really want to go down that road and would prefer to leave that money in my bank account and spend what I bring along. After all, I don't really want to be spending way too much in Dubai. This is all really new for me as I have never been in a foreign country on my own and being responsible for all my spendings. I lived a pretty cushy student life!..guess this will be a little of a shock for me :bored:

Mother Hen - That name is just wicked! totally awesome. Thank you for the advice, it is amazing as you are able to get us the info we really really need. I am sure your daughther is having a ball in Dubai and would love to hear more stories of her time in Dubai.

Before sending my application off to Dubai, I was required to get professional pics done and the lady who got them done usually takes them to EK standards. Back when I was getting the pics done, she said that I will need 20 more and that she would have my file on computer and therefore be able to print the same ones out for me with a blue background. I will resort to that for my pics as they were really nice.

As cheeky as this may sound, do you have an idea of what her roster is like in a typical month?

Thanks once again :ok:

Guys are on hold due to no vacancies?!?!?! That does not sound good at all. I didnt know there are a limited spare for guys!!! :\ I'm attending the assessment day on the 27th Oct in Melb.. does that mean I have less chance or harder to join EK because I'm a Guy??... that doesnt sound fair.... :{