BA Connect (was City Express)
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Hi Guys
Just wondering if anyone out there who was in the Interview Holding Pool, is still awaiting an interview, with City Express, or do we need to start reapplying?
Just wondering if anyone out there who was in the Interview Holding Pool, is still awaiting an interview, with City Express, or do we need to start reapplying?
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am still waiting for interview, there are 20 or so ahead of me. i have also been told that if the on-line application opens before we are called, we have to fill it in again. 
At least 20 in the hold pool (by which I mean interviewed, simmed and passed selection), some waiting since last October and little prospect of a start date in the next couple of months.
I wouldn't pin too many hopes on an interview any time soon.
I wouldn't pin too many hopes on an interview any time soon.
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Hi all,
Just to confirm what's being said. I've bin in the pool for 6 months now and I can tell you this company does not have a clue! Information changes at the drop of a hat and even then it's up to you to call and find out what is going on! Had one email in that six months but never any info given. Poor show!!
I'm very lucky I already have a job but most of the others don't so you can only imagine what they are going through by Connect constantly hanging the carrot. 
Just to confirm what's being said. I've bin in the pool for 6 months now and I can tell you this company does not have a clue! Information changes at the drop of a hat and even then it's up to you to call and find out what is going on! Had one email in that six months but never any info given. Poor show!!
I'm very lucky I already have a job but most of the others don't so you can only imagine what they are going through by Connect constantly hanging the carrot.
Is it an omen that pprune has recently introduced the 'Ugh' (banging head against wall) smilie? It already seems to have superseded the 'Thumb'...
A reflection on these times? At least in the old days there were no jobs and everyone knew that, now there are hundreds of jobs but no recruitment due to lack of training crew. That seems to be Bacon's primary problem at the moment, but they won't admit it.
A reflection on these times? At least in the old days there were no jobs and everyone knew that, now there are hundreds of jobs but no recruitment due to lack of training crew. That seems to be Bacon's primary problem at the moment, but they won't admit it.
And if there's a course in July, why am I not on it. With Rosco here, and Mr Wonka and CaptYanknBank. We've all been told we're at the top of the list. Come on BACON, lets get things moving.
(Just redressing the balance a bit. Always the optimist...)
(Just redressing the balance a bit. Always the optimist...)
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MOATY
yup it probably has been such a long wait that we've changed name to BA-Connect
ROSCO328
If this is how you feel, you obviously wouldn't want to work for such a company so why don't you ask to be taken out of the hold pool ??
Troy McClure
All trainers here are working their socks of and like every airline training is limited to how many people you can get through the sim + line training at one time. There is mega recruitment going on here as more experienced chaps are moving on and have to be replaced. BACON is not unlike other airlines in that we are geared up for crews to fly the line, so when a boom comes along it's difficult to take up the slack. Don't forget that in the last few years there has not been so much turn over in the industry so airlines don't need to pay extra for line + sim trainers when they are not required.
If your in the pool , well done, but don't hang around doing nothing keep applying for other jobs - you may even get something better than BACON (some would say that ain't hard !!)........
is still awaiting an interview, with City Express, or do we need to start reapplying?
ROSCO328
this company does not have a clue!
Poor show!!
Troy McClure
no recruitment due to lack of training crew.
If your in the pool , well done, but don't hang around doing nothing keep applying for other jobs - you may even get something better than BACON (some would say that ain't hard !!)........
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Rosco328, if you already have an airline job I do wonder why you are so pi
sed off with BA connect.
To all waiting, BA connect do seem to take ther time, however once you're in the T&c's are one of the best in the industry. I can't imagine you could beat the staff travel.
pm's welcome
sed off with BA connect.To all waiting, BA connect do seem to take ther time, however once you're in the T&c's are one of the best in the industry. I can't imagine you could beat the staff travel.
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"We of course welcome contributions from pilots who are here with the intention of informing and helping our wannabes".
Didn't think I was breaking any rules Scroggs dear chap.
Didn't think I was breaking any rules Scroggs dear chap.
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Rosco, you appear to be here to gain rather than to offer information. While there is nothing to stop you reading this or any thread on Wannabes - and you are very welcome to do so - Terms and Endearment is the appropriate forum for you to engage in discussions about changing, rather than gaining, employment.
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To true that the airline industry changes so quickly. My good friend in the BACON hold pool, was told last week by flight ops, not to expect to be on a dash 8 course until early 2007 !
So good news for all of you in the hold pool if dash 8 course now around sept.
MrM
To true that the airline industry changes so quickly. My good friend in the BACON hold pool, was told last week by flight ops, not to expect to be on a dash 8 course until early 2007 !
So good news for all of you in the hold pool if dash 8 course now around sept.
MrM