Pay rise?
School fees?
accomodation allowance.?
very quiet!

I hope you do well on all counts.

This is a rumour website after all, so my stab in the dark is a 8% rise on the basic, which will be announced next month.

If they can raise ticket fares by 20% due to inflation, they can raise the relatively small basic by 5-10%. Rents have exploded in the last 12 months, since the last AA increase; it needs a topping up too.

They critically need to keep the recruitment machine going. That's partly what the 24 weeks was for, and a decent salary increase would also be heard around the industry. It's crunch time, and lot's of aircraft still sitting on the ground due to lack of Captains. And they are supposed to be building a surplus for the A350 next year...

With the new 350 training centre being built, now is the time to pull out the wallet and fix this problem before it's too late. Currently $billions of lost opportunity. Lot's of market share up for grabs post-covid too, and the 350 is slated to open up routes that are too small for the 777. Having this new shiny toy parked due to lack of staff would be a waste.

They won't park the 350. They will hire DECs at whatever payscale they need to. It is much cheaper to bring in a few DECs on year 10 payscale than to give everybody a rise. It has been done before.

still there are so many how didn’t get a call to come back - some of them not in intressted anymore and others are of to new grounds
EK recruiting ****** it up already

and they now realise they need someone to do the recruiting!! ground based job too!!

Probably ground based because whoever takes that poisoned chalice is going to be much too busy to do any flying!

a good forecast on future roasters!
because it’s your fault that you can’t convince your friends to come.

Any truth to the following rumour? - "5000 cabin crew resigned in one month?" and - "They have lowered the age of cabin crew to 18"?

It's true they are still more short of crew than Captains. The manual has already been changed to show the recruitment age of new joiner crew can be 17, as long as they've turned 18 by the time they graduate training college. Not sure if they are actively recruiting this age group, but we'll see when the school term ends :sad:

I've never seen training college busier. The lifts are almost unusable, with hoards of crew waiting at each floor to squeeze into a space that never comes.

Last I heard was they’re trying to recruit 300 cabin crew per month knowing full well they are losing 150 per month- so covering loss but trying to increase numbers!
Many newbie cabin crew (within 6 months of starting) still resigning when they realize what the jobs really like, and remember these are the older ones! Heaven knows what economy full of 18 year old cabin crew will be like , pursers and CSVs told to take it easy with newbies already for fear that they might resign if told off!

This is simply underlings covering their arses, placating their bosses recruiting whoever they can without any thought of the outcome.

Does anyone really think that a average 17/ turning 18 year old is actually ready to leave home, move to the ME and work for EK. I reckon most would not last 6 months.

Dubai will eat them alive. I don't think I could have survived Dubai at 18.

Yes!...

Gents you would be surprised maybe in your reality however check down the road at some of the LCC's

Lines longer than the office can handle for open days, people queuing outside of the building. Ready to leave home from Central Asia/North Africa/Far East and join as cabin crew.

For many of them an amazing opportunity and a good life ahead and all in DXB. Don't be surprised guys, EK would be a heaven. - Mostly make some $ and leave after a few years, but a great opportunity none the less and this is at the LCC's!

SWISS

Just because they THINK they are ready and can handle it, does not mean they will. It is two very different things.

Sure seems like they can! Actually the problem is loosing them to the bigger ones even after a few months of experience! Anyway the no competes have already been drafted so that should fix it.

And you know this to be a fact, how?

Usually struggle to park my Ford Raptor but that day I gave up all together.

Rumour has it fleet quite shocked at number of requests for log book stamping! Anybody confirm this?