Yup, £2K. Certainly helps to pad out the subsistence allowance as well as tide over the potential 2 months between last CTC pay and first airline pay.

Reckon we'll still get that £2000? Or will the goalposts be permanently shifted....?

:mad:

Monarch are looking for FO's - let's hope they approach CTC for a few of them. 39 would be nice....

Guys,

When is the last time anyone from the holding pool was actually plucked for employment. Also what is the longest time currently that anyone has spent in the pool. As I understand it from previous posts there are approx 39 of you. Is there any information forthcoming from CTC about future employment or are you just expected to sit around/get part time jobs and wait for a call.

Cheers in Advance.

Anyone got any news of movement or anything for that matter? Got to be about due another update!

No doubt another update to say nothing's happening...yet :}

According to PPJN, Monarch is looking to hire 50 this winter. Of course, I'm not saying all 50 of them are going to be CTC ATP cadets!

http://www.pilotjobsnetwork.com/fact...3wubjg07k0mztv

Monarch has a pool of pilots already waiting to start courses. Who knows whats happening there?

Perhaps they'll send an update to congratulate those that will soon have waited one year in the pool on their first anniversary. Sure, Monarch will take a few, they always do, but I can't see any major demand from the other partner airlines. Keep applying elsewhere; not fair but that's the way it seems to be.

Anyone see the CTC/Club 328 ad in Flight International? What do you make of that then?

Easy Jet recruiting again?
 

Has anyone heard anything from Easy Jet? They still say they'll start recruiting in November. How do you all think this will affect us? Monthly intake from pool?

there is an extremely big holding pool at easyJet. Lots of TRSS and DEC passed already the selection process a couple of months ago and were told that they won't be starting before at least next spring.
So I am not sure they will need inexperienced cadets.
good luck

Also looking at another thread, it seems to suggest EZY are pretty over crewed at luton this winter.

As I understand the airlines agree to take so many cadets, Us ATPers then fill the gaps, so I don't think there will be many gaps to fill from pool this coming recruitment season.

The best hope is Monarch who want 50 pilots this winter, and at best, I feel only about 10 will probably come from the hold pool as Im sure they will want to take on a spread of experience. ( just my speculation and not based on any facts).

I havent heard a peak out of CTC for a while now so I can only assume they don't know much more than we do.

To be honest Im loosing hope of being fished out of the pool this winter:ugh:

Sorry to be on a downer......... bad day at work.

Hopefully something will happen soon

mint

I wanna ask something to you all. Do you think there's the possibility to stay more than a year in the pool? And the possibility of seeing the ATP Holdpool cancelled? Or the benefits and conditions of the contracts with the partner airlines downgraded?

Greets

a: yes, I think there is few coming up to their 1 year anniversary, and being nearer the back end of the pool I wouldn't be surprised to see my one year anniversary at the current stagnant rate.

b: No I don't think it will be cancelled... Things have slowed up in terms of recruitment with the partnership airlines due to mergers, BACON guys going to EZY etc. so its just bad timing on our part. Above all CTC have a reputation to keep and dumping 37-39 guys currently in the hold pool who they have already invested a small chunk of money in then what’s the point. We are not costing them anything while we contiue to swim. We are fortunate that we are not bonded and free to find an alternative route should we want to.

C: I hope not but I guess that will depend on how much CTC want to get rid of us or how desperate we get. We need to remember we went this route because we liked what it said on the tin, and again it would not do CTC much good to do otherwise without our consent.. I still believe they will continue to work hard to help us out.

Hopefully we will get an update from them soon!!

Mint

Firstly, some have already been in the hold pool for more than a year. At last count, there were still some people from the September AQC in the pool, and not heard that there's been any movement recently.
Cancelling the pool I'd like to think would be damaging to CTC's reputation. They are a well respected type rating provider after all, and partner airlines like to have a mix of FO's including a few low houred ones. If CTC is doing the type ratings, it's in the airline's interest to take on a few CTC-recommended people (ie out of the pool) as it saves them having to interview, sim ride, etc. etc. In that respect, CTC is acting as a recruitment agency too.
Changing the conditions - let's hope not....

PS: Must have had the web page open for longer than I thought and Mintflavour beat me to it. Same sentiments though.

i wonder if anyone from the hold pool is going to club 328??

I very much doubt it.. unless they can't find enough candidates from the applicants they already have/interviewing.

Do many ATP's have the 1000 hours they where looking for? I don't know... Also to be in the hold pool, CTC will have already put them through the phase 1-4 where as Club328 seem to be starting from scratch and interviewing themselves.

Interesting point though..

Never bothered looking at the ad ...... was it 1000TT or type/TP specific?

and unfortunately I dont have that number of hours.

Mint

Perhaps it has already been mentioned, however BA are looking for around 170 pilots each year for the next three years. Maybe they will look at the holdpool to acquire some of this number?

Regards

To those who have been in the pool or in the pool this time last year? What month/s tends to be the peak time for us to be dragged out of the pool?

Cheers