OH:{ So since I have given up the Integrated OAA idea and the chance of getting a job directly with BA etc, I tought oh well there are many good airlines that I can apply for anyway but now all the airline seems to take Inito pilots from OAA:ugh:

all? i would hardly call one airline all, and can i remind you that BA are hiring absolutely nobody straight out of ANY school, whether they be integrated, modular, goat herders or swedish porn stars NONE.

BA Recruitment

DEP only, and for that you could be integrated OR modular trained.

EZY presentation @ OAA
 

Just to let anyone who might be interested know....

As lovely as John Green is, I went through a type rating with him and have now been at EZY with him for the last 18 months at Luton the notion that the supply of cadets is to switch from CTC to OAA is, i'm afraid, unfounded.

Indeed the company is dedicated to CTC and will continue to take cadets through the modified cadet scheme (flexicrew).

I think John is susceptable to excitment!

Anyway best wishes all.

That would imply therefore that the Wings scheme has more or less stopped then because Easyjet are CTCs major taker, Thomas Cook are only doing 10ish lots of 6 month contracts and there isn't much else. There is nothing sponsored or guaranteed about the Flexicrew scheme. It is work experience. So is the CTC scheme still 'The Wings' scheme? Or is it a different scheme? I guess it makes no difference - something is better than nothing, and that is why this industry is going down the pan.

Hi

I was looking at the Flexi Crew scheme and am trying to do some research. Do CTC line you up into a position before starting the type rating with an airline ....

If you join an airline reading the above thread from the Flexi crew scheme, is the contract just 6 months and then you get the boot? That would obviously be very expensive work experience with the type rating SOP's of that airlines etc.

I would have assumed perhaps you would hopefully get a full time contract at the end assuming performance was okay.

Not 100% on the flexicrew details, but I do know two people waiting to do their A320TR for EZY on the scheme. Here is what I know;

I believe the TR is paid for by EZY. Of course, you still have your own eye watering loan repayments from the CTC fATPL course. You are on your own there.

It is a 6 month contract, you get paid a paltry £1000 per month*, no leave/holiday entitlement and when you're gone you aint coming back any time soon. This is for 2 reasons:

1) You will start asking for outrageous luxuries such as a legal wage so as not to live in poverty and have paid holidays. Wholly unacceptable.

2) The CTC sausage machine will be spewing out a load more "cadets" after you. They have to keep up highly misleading statistics which make it look like 100% of cadets get a 'job' with an airline. So they will be next.

In short, CTC was a good scheme. It probably will be again one day. Unfortunately, it has turned into a nightmare and is probably the most expensive way to build 500 A320 hours out there.

Those trapped in the scheme have no choice and did not have all the info about the economy we have today when they started. You do. Buyer beware.

But, as with all these things, if you can afford it and this is what you want to do, then go forth and enjoy some loco hour building!

*sorry to state the bloody obvious, but that works out at a £12,000 pa job. Shocking to say the least.