BA Speedbird Academy 2023
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I'd recommend picking Skyborn in future. At least you don't waste time and money going to Waterside to do the testing for FTE. 7 hours for a few tests and a bland group exercise was ridiculous. Then they asked for us to bring certificates which no one checked, we just had to take photos of them on an ipad. Then there was an issue and made us do it again. Typical BA service. Not sure the point of old school paper tests for a few multiple choice tests. Good luck to those left in the process. We all know BA are a horrendous airline and it was always about the free training and moving on to a proper airline once the handcuffs were off.
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I'd recommend picking Skyborn in future. At least you don't waste time and money going to Waterside to do the testing for FTE. 7 hours for a few tests and a bland group exercise was ridiculous. Then they asked for us to bring certificates which no one checked, we just had to take photos of them on an ipad. Then there was an issue and made us do it again. Typical BA service. Not sure the point of old school paper tests for a few multiple choice tests. Good luck to those left in the process. We all know BA are a horrendous airline and it was always about the free training and moving on to a proper airline once the handcuffs were off.
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I'd recommend picking Skyborn in future. At least you don't waste time and money going to Waterside to do the testing for FTE. 7 hours for a few tests and a bland group exercise was ridiculous. Then they asked for us to bring certificates which no one checked, we just had to take photos of them on an ipad. Then there was an issue and made us do it again. Typical BA service. Not sure the point of old school paper tests for a few multiple choice tests. Good luck to those left in the process. We all know BA are a horrendous airline and it was always about the free training and moving on to a proper airline once the handcuffs were off.
And for what it’s worth, they can tell a lot about an individual from a group exercise. Maybe there lies your issue, that you treated it as a bland assessment.
I'd recommend picking Skyborn in future. At least you don't waste time and money going to Waterside to do the testing for FTE. 7 hours for a few tests and a bland group exercise was ridiculous. Then they asked for us to bring certificates which no one checked, we just had to take photos of them on an ipad. Then there was an issue and made us do it again. Typical BA service. Not sure the point of old school paper tests for a few multiple choice tests. Good luck to those left in the process. We all know BA are a horrendous airline and it was always about the free training and moving on to a proper airline once the handcuffs were off.
If you’re already this bitter about one of the best airlines to work for in the UK, and you haven’t even started flying yet, then this job isn’t for you!
Your mental health is going to take a pounding if you go into this gig already this angry with it. Normally people start off naive and starry eyed and then the reality of the job sets in. Can only imagine how bad you’ll be after your third 4am arrival from Tenerife on the bounce.
Follow your actual passion, don’t go down this path because it’s cool to ‘be a pilot’. Not least because misery is infectious and the thousands of other flight and cabin crew you’d come into contact with across a career don’t need the attitude anymore than you do.
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I'd recommend picking Skyborn in future. At least you don't waste time and money going to Waterside to do the testing for FTE. 7 hours for a few tests and a bland group exercise was ridiculous. Then they asked for us to bring certificates which no one checked, we just had to take photos of them on an ipad. Then there was an issue and made us do it again. Typical BA service. Not sure the point of old school paper tests for a few multiple choice tests. Good luck to those left in the process. We all know BA are a horrendous airline and it was always about the free training and moving on to a proper airline once the handcuffs were off.
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I'd recommend picking Skyborn in future. At least you don't waste time and money going to Waterside to do the testing for FTE. 7 hours for a few tests and a bland group exercise was ridiculous. Then they asked for us to bring certificates which no one checked, we just had to take photos of them on an ipad. Then there was an issue and made us do it again. Typical BA service. Not sure the point of old school paper tests for a few multiple choice tests. Good luck to those left in the process. We all know BA are a horrendous airline and it was always about the free training and moving on to a proper airline once the handcuffs were off.