CottPilot

I would also like to know if anyone has any info on this. Also how many people are in the hold pool and how long people are roughly in it for?

flyfly4

Hi! I just finished my engineering degree after a lot of sacrifice and i'm ready to start my pilot studies. What i am considering is wether to study in any aviation academy or in the ctc wings scheme. I really don't know if the chances of finding a job are much bigger if i choose the latter option.

I also would like to know if ryanair are currently getting candidates from ctc of only from caeoaa? Thanks!

spiropilot

Colleagues,

Is there someone who joint MPL course of CTC?

FlyVeryHigh-

Officer Kite,

I have a pal who's just finished CTC. Says the Thomas Cook guys had to pay £24K for the A320 TR.

Officer Kite

Thanks for the info FlyVeryHigh !

ManWithoutSkin

I don't think Ryanair currently take students from CTC, but CTC have just announced that Ryanair will be the guest speaker at their next carrer event, so that maybe suggests they will now start working together.

average-punter

There is certainly at least one CTC chap recently hired by Ryanair.

JPFTEJerez

Flybe and Ryanair are both currently recruiting cadets from the hold pool, easy jet closed their recruitment in December

George Hayward

Hi guys, I am also starting on CP135 in July, and was wondering if anyone knows if the type rating cost is required as an extra payment at the end of training, or if it is taken out of the £69,000 security bond that is handed over to the airline when the cadet finishes training?

JPFTEJerez

Unfortunately this is one of the things CTC don't tend to highlight to their cadets, (most) airlines do not pay for type ratings for new cadets, for example Ryanair make you pay double the usual rating cost and the Thompson guys that just started had to pay £23000 ish on top of their training costs.

average-punter

Funny how they don't highlight that hey, but to be honest anyone who doesn't know that has shown a fundamentally poor level of research and for that I have zero sympathy.

I'm just going to clear up some confusion here. A few guys recently got a job with Thomas Cook, not Thomson. I am happy to be corrected if some were hired by Thomson too, but I would imagine it would have been published in some form of PR release if it were the case.

JPFTEJerez

Thompson, Thomas Cook, I don't really care the point I was making is that the newly recruited cadets had to fork out £23000 for a type rating which I find disgusting that they make them pay that after the cost of training.

George Hayward

Was speaking to CTC today on the phone about the BSc Degree and also can confirm that the type rating must be paid for separately. As there is a good chance the security bond of the Wings course will be paid back to you in full over the course over of 7 years with one of their partner airlines, the financial impact wouldn't be as high in the long run.

FlyVeryHigh-

Type rating costs guys:

EZY: £9,000
Monarch: Approx £17,000
Thomas cook: £24,000
Ryanair: £22,000 (exchange rate dependent)
Flybe: no cost
BA: no cost.

dlcmdrx

Hi guys, just came from The US with FAA licenses and 1200 hours including 700 hours of cfing.


IS this program a feasible option or even an option i would have a chance on??
Im 30 years of age and considering the modular route since FTE wont take someone for conversión.

planedrive

Flyveryhigh: AFAIK, the 'White Tail' guys who went on to BA didn't have to pay for TR as such, however they did have to increase their bond to match those who'd gone through the FPP, so they were still required to fork out approx £15k after finishing the CTC course. Thanks for the other information!

Regarding George Haywards point - does anyone know which partner airlines taking 'White Tails' pay back the bond in full?

Lockheed_Blackbird

I've heard from a EZY pilot that no one pays back the bond to you except BA...

FlyVeryHigh-

Cheers for that! That wasn't mentioned to me when I asked...

Many thanks!

ak.haddad

Hello Everybody!
This is officially my first post!
I am keen on joining ctc wings, and i was wondering about whether airlines care about your nationality? Im Lebanese, would that make any difference in the probabily of being accepted than a US citizen for example?
Thankss

BittenEdges

Hi ak,

For the CTC Wings scheme you need to have the right to live/work anywhere in the European Union or Switzerland. For most of the airline schemes this needs to be the case as well.

From the top of my head, I think the Qatar Wings MPL is the only airline tagged scheme that doesn't have this nationality restriction.

The Takeoff integrated scheme also has no nationality restriction however this doesn't include the Airline Qualification Course and entry into the employment hold pool.

Best get onto the website and start reading through the different training programmes

Cheers!