London based? Bored of Y1?
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If you're a Europe based pilot, this is your opportunity.....
Everyone knows that our terms and conditions at Cx, once the very best, have become far from competitive enough to attract and retain experienced crews. Weighed in the balance....the combative employee/management environment, the constant nickel and dime cutting, the erosion of inflation to our pay, the debilitating rostering, the patronizing parent to child tone, all combine to make weighing the decision to throw it all away and leave CX a constant consideration.
Maybe, just maybe, enough pilots will make the choice to jump at this opportunity; maybe management will finally acknowledge what a total mess piloting at CX has become over the past 20 years and finally begin the pilot get-well program that screams for attention.
Everyone knows that our terms and conditions at Cx, once the very best, have become far from competitive enough to attract and retain experienced crews. Weighed in the balance....the combative employee/management environment, the constant nickel and dime cutting, the erosion of inflation to our pay, the debilitating rostering, the patronizing parent to child tone, all combine to make weighing the decision to throw it all away and leave CX a constant consideration.
Maybe, just maybe, enough pilots will make the choice to jump at this opportunity; maybe management will finally acknowledge what a total mess piloting at CX has become over the past 20 years and finally begin the pilot get-well program that screams for attention.
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Good luck to any CX guys going for this but I expect the competition will be fierce for only a handful of spaces. Many guys also in the desert with time and a rating looking to go back to Europe.
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There is no competition in BA, if you're up to the mark they invite you in and you sit in the hold pool. They're looking for up to 250 pilots next year alone! This is all on the Terms and Endearment page.
http://www.pprune.org/terms-endearme...rt-2-a-25.html
http://www.pprune.org/terms-endearme...rt-2-a-25.html
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Of course there is competition. Those taken from the pool will be the best fit for BA, the others will wait till their time expires and have to go through it all again to get back in the pool. Not suggesting people should not go for it, if I had a 777 rating I would apply. Its just the tone in this thread seems to suggest it is a walk in job if coming from CX.
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Not true quadspeed. We have several British pilots who chose CX over BA in the past, one of whom I know left BA after a year or so, came here and took a freighter command.
It is true that the landscape has now changed so we may lose many to this latest BA offering. I have it on good authority that they're recruiting directly onto the long haul fleet because they're losing pilots from the 320 due ****ty rosters so they may also have to improve their package!
It is true that the landscape has now changed so we may lose many to this latest BA offering. I have it on good authority that they're recruiting directly onto the long haul fleet because they're losing pilots from the 320 due ****ty rosters so they may also have to improve their package!
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It is a no brainer if you want a UK base. 7-15 years to command at BA, yes maybe a move to short haul for it but at CX its 30 years for a command, by then I expect bases will be distant memories.