Flybe
 

Hi All,

Am 800 TT, 500 jets..anybody know if Flybe will be recruiting for F/Os in the near future?
Last I heard was January?

Do they ask base preference or just go where they need you? Hopefully not JER or GUR!!

Cheers
CJ

No direct knowledge of when F/O recruitment will restart, but early next year sounds reasonable.

Applicants specify base preference (1st 2nd and 3rd choices) on initial application, the company will do their best to match your choice, but there are no guarantees. JER or GCI extremely unlikely unless you have Channel Islands residency. Not many volunteers for Belfast, Glasgow or Fraggle Rock, so they are all quite common intial basings.

Recruitment again in February.

Your base will be northern, expect Inverness.

CC

Flybe basing
 

Not sure if it helps but traditionally you end up spending around a year trying to get a Southern base like SOU, I got Gla for 9 months, then 3 months in Brum before I got Sou. Crews were excellent to fly with everywhere though which is the upside.

Good luck,

Desk-pilot

Any of you got partners? must be difficult for her to move about with you if so?
Wouldnt mind going anywhere really ....Just like the bit about being back most nights... Is that still the case as I seem to bump into a lot of BE crews in Guernsey/Jersey on nightstops!
How about Exeter, is that a popular choice?

Thanks for infos :)

After a bit (3 months I think now, not 6) you can get cheaper standby tickets for friends and family to travel on the network. Shame it's not free but better than nowt.

Jersey / Guernsey
 

C.I. residency required to be based at JER or GCI = shortage of suitable candidates = lots of mainland crews nightstopping in the islands. As a general rule, the bases are less popular the further north you go (nothing to do with the people, just the location).

Staff travel is indeed available after three months' service. :ok:

Always like to have a laugh at the newbies who get posted to BHD, immediately bid to work somewhere else even before they have set foot in NI, and then realise it is actually the best base in the network just as they get bundled out the door to some of the worst bases in the network.

Act in haste, repent at leisure. :}

I understand that for cabin crew, there's actually a queue to get into BHD. Party on . . . :ok:

Really now! Why didn't I know about this :} The cabin crew at BHD are brill

FlyBe recruits on the Q400...are you really willing to make your way onto a TP?

Surely this is a flipant joke - you would seriously suggest that you would hold out for a Jet job instead of a Q400?

Bah, the Q400 is a beauty.

Lets face it you've got to take the first job that comes up, TP or Jet.

In all seriousness, I have heard next year is the earliest for when the FO recruitment is going to reopen. It is only a rumour, and might not happen.

The courses for the rest of the year are filled with 145 pilots undergoing conversions to the Q400, and at the moment, I believe that FlyBE might be overcrewed - my friend has 12 sectors rostered for next month and this seems to be quite common across a few of the bases currently.

So, in short, it will probably be next year at the earliest, but keep on watching the website.

assymetric

See my previous post, #3 regarding recruitment, this is fact. The hold pool is filling up slowly. PM me if you need details

Oh I am already there, buzzing around the skies of the UK! ;)

The courses are indeed filled with internal conversions (and the odd recruit) at the moment, however, Flybe are NOT overcrewed. The reason for the lack of F/O sectors at the moment is twofold:

1) The above mentioned training
2) Prudent winter trimming of services

The bulk of the internal conversion training will have been completed in the spring when 'normal' induction is forecast to resume.

Recruitment to the holding pool is underway at the moment but this is mainly for Captains, who are more widely available at the moment.

There are a number of F/Os in the holding pool at the moment (Q400 only) but there is also a priority supply of F/O's from the schemes with Flybes training partner schools.

To the newbies who have set their first job sights on a jet - good luck!;)

Personally I think the Q400 would be an absolutely cracking first job! It's strange how when you start off in your training the 220-250 hours you finish with seem quite a lot, but when you're half way through your IR you've come to realise that it really, REALLY is next to nothing at all....you're little more than "no more a complete beginner!"

MPL at FlyBE
 

Hi Guys & Gals
This is my first post, I have done some investigating about the MPL. My posistion is that I have my PPL but looking to go and get my fATPL. I know about Sterling and they let their MPL grads go after 6 months which is a blow.
The fact is I would love to join FlyBE as a new FO but it is making me cautious about all the posts and the article about FlyBE being the first UK airline to introduce the MPL.
Does this mean if I start my fATPL course next winter (as planned) and qualify end 2010/beg 2011 there will be no chance of getting in with FlyBE with a traditional CPL ME IR MCC low hours pilot if they have all their intake with a new MPL scheme they may offer.
This is a real big concern to me as FlyBE seem to be one of the best companies to work for and they seem keen to take on low hours pilots but I can not blame them if they have an aggrement with a FTO to train new pilots on an MPL scheme it makes perfect business sense to FlyBE. The last thing I want to do is train on the traditional route (only route now) and get my fATPL to be told at the end, FlyBE/ Ryanair etc are only taking on new pilots via their MPL schemes and be left with no airlines taking on low houred pilots?
Does anyone think this could be a reality?