Ryanair cadet open day
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Been there done that.
I joined FR as a low houred guy on the 200. before the days of paid for type ratings, am still here 7 years later.
You should seriously consider it, yes its very expensive, but so was your licence, and you are not bonded and will earn more than most from year 2.
If you work out your potential earnings over 5 years, including command at year 4, you will see that you will be better off than many other jobs over that period.
It aint perfert, far from it and they are tough, but safety is not an issue, Ryanair are playing market forces and always will, but they will not scrimp a single euro on safety or crew training which are superb. The Aircraft are technically immaculate and it is the one of the best Airline jobs if you want to hand fly the plane which is encouraged.
But you will be pretty skint for the 6 months and should account for that.
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I joined FR as a low houred guy on the 200. before the days of paid for type ratings, am still here 7 years later.
You should seriously consider it, yes its very expensive, but so was your licence, and you are not bonded and will earn more than most from year 2.
If you work out your potential earnings over 5 years, including command at year 4, you will see that you will be better off than many other jobs over that period.
It aint perfert, far from it and they are tough, but safety is not an issue, Ryanair are playing market forces and always will, but they will not scrimp a single euro on safety or crew training which are superb. The Aircraft are technically immaculate and it is the one of the best Airline jobs if you want to hand fly the plane which is encouraged.
But you will be pretty skint for the 6 months and should account for that.
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Glide...
Personally I thought it was good, answered all my questions and got all the info I was looking for. All the Ryanair bods there were friendly willing to chat and discuss anything. There was a fair bit of standing around but thats unavoidable at those sort of events.
Be prepared for the car park at EMA though, £12 to park all day!!
Apparently theres limited parking behind RYR building so when you get there its worth checking before you get fleeced in the short stay.
DPT
Personally I thought it was good, answered all my questions and got all the info I was looking for. All the Ryanair bods there were friendly willing to chat and discuss anything. There was a fair bit of standing around but thats unavoidable at those sort of events.
Be prepared for the car park at EMA though, £12 to park all day!!
Apparently theres limited parking behind RYR building so when you get there its worth checking before you get fleeced in the short stay.
DPT
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I would say that if anyone were a clown, they would not get the job, but I know what your saying, sometimes though when you are flight an aircraft that is a lot lighter than a 737 the operators dont recognise your hours as being relevant and captains of lighter weight jets even would have to start as cadets. I know one guy who is struggling to decide on his future as this is precisely the case for him with FR. Perhaps "5" was not a totally accurate figure to quote in todays employment market, I was just trying to make the point that starting on a jet you are ahead of a person starting on a prop who generally would want to progress onto jets and even being senior on a prop, youll have to start at the bottom of the ladder on a jet so you are on the botto of the ladder twice ie prop and then jet, anyway Im sure you can see the point that Im trying to make,
Gotta go
cheers
WD
Gotta go
cheers
WD
