easyjet
 

thought this was of interest, as we know easy jet just bought 120 airbus a319s (1.95Billion) for delivery upto the end of 2007 over boeing - the reason because airbus offered a 50% discount. but this is the interesting bit, easy jet also took an option to buy a futher 120 a319s for delivery upto 2012. AND easy jet have an option to buy Deutche BA which they have yet to exercise. unfortunatly I doubt any of us are no spring chickens but thought it was of interest.

The 120 aircraft will in some cases simply replace 737's currently on lease.

When they start arriving (Sept 2003) the initial batch go to Switzerland. 120 aircraft over 5 years means roughly a new aircraft every fortnight requiring 6 captains and 6 first officers.

Not that I know anything but I can't see that many aircraft all sitting on UK tarmac at night. The bulk of the new aircraft represent easyJets plans to open bases Sausage Side.

Not that, as EU citizens and JAA license holders, this should necessarily pose a problem for you.

I say necessarily because its never really been done before. Ryanair are the first airline to have serious bases out of their own country... Whether the French will somehow insist everyone hired for - say - a Paris base is fluent in French I don't know.

One hopes it all bodes well for UK Wannabes. Just don't expect any breathless calls from easyJet enquiring about your training progress... :D

WWW

Errrrrr....

Sausage Side.....?

Err i've been looking in my atlas and errrrr i'm errrrr confused errrrr......

Do you mean the states?:D

Sausage Side is a well known and beloved BlackAdderism for the Continent.

An A-level in Blackadder is the minimum requirement to understand the nuance of at least half my posts ;)

Cheers,

WWW

Hello All

Great news hey 120firm and 120opt I work on the Airbus FAL in Hamburg as AC Spark so this is good news for me from a Wannabe's point of View and Sparks point of view.

The story we have is that the 120opt will consist of A320's & 321's.

I am out here saving for puting myself through the Maddness of seeking a career in the sky.

How mad am I to belive I can learn to fly and make it my job?

How much of a risk is borrowing the money to do this?

I am 22 how much time left do I have before I "miss the boat"?

Some info,

TAM & IBEREA have recently defferd on payments so they will be going into storage for long time with US Airways.

Also Northwest struggling hope they recover the FAL is full of them.

Indeed

You see I'm as thick as the big-print version of The Complete Works of Charles Dickens. ;)

As moderator I think you should immediately allow the hijacking of this thread with the best Blackadder quotes ever:

:D

Apologies in advance www.

From memory, one of my favourites....


Blackadder: "Um...I've got some bad news, sir....Its About the fair Lady Georgina"
Melchett: "Oh God! she's not Welsh is she?"

Followed by two or three howls by the General when he finds out she's dead, then:

Melchett: "Ah well, can't be helped"


JH

more sausage-sideness
 

apols in advance too, but the scene was really set though...

Scene 4: In The Trench
----------------------

[As he emerges from the dugout BlackAdder sighs and prepares to light his pipe.
Squadron Commander Lord Flasheart jumps down from his crashed plane.]

Flasheart Ha! Eat knuckle, Fritz!

[Flasheart knocks BA to the ground with his pistol, then puts a foot on
BA's chest.]

Flasheart Aha! How disgusting. A Boche on the sole of my boot. I shall have to find a patch of grass to wipe it on. Probably get shunned in the Officers' Mess. Sorry about the pong you fellows, trod in a Boche and can't get rid of the whiff.

[BA rises.]

BA - Do you think we could dispense with the hilarious doggy-do
metaphor for a moment? I'm not a Boche. This is a British trench.

[Flasheart puts his pistol away.]

Flasheart - Is it? Oh, that's a piece of luck. Thought I'd landed
sausage-side! Ha!

[Flasheart picks up the receiver of a field-telephone lying by the dugout entrance.]

Flasheart - Mind if I use your phone? If word gets out that I'm
missing, five hundred girls will kill themselves. I wouldn't want them on my conscience, not when they ought to be on
my face! Huh!

[Flasheart kicks the phone into action.]

Flasheart - Hi, Flasheart here. Yeah, cancel the state funeral, tell
the King to stop blubbing. Flash is not dead. I simply ran out of juice! Yeah, and before all the girls start saying "Oh, what's the point of living anymore", I'm talking about petrol! Woof, woof!
Yeah, I dumped the kite on the proles, so send a car. Er, General Melchett's driver should do. She hangs around with
the big nobs, so she'll be used to a fellow like me! Woof, woof!

Whats the one about the polar bear wearing sunglasses trying to get into a giraffe only golf club????? :D

"A fine body of men you've got there, Blackadder!"

"Yes sir, soon to become fine bodies of men..."

Yes, thank you, thank you. Heaven knows I don't want to pooh pooh all this but we have a savage dose of thread creep here!

WWW

Sorry after reading my Black Adder book I can now complete my previous post:

WWW sorry Its been bugging me.. :p

:D

thread wander
 

flash: "always treat your kite like you treat a woman."

George: "How d'you mean sir? Do you mean taker her home at the weekend to meet your mother?"

Flash: "No I mean get inside her 5 times a day and take her to heaven and back."

so what was this thread about?

Easyjet?

"Any bird who wants to chain herself to my railings and suffer a jet movement..."

I guess that it must be good news if they are buying aircraft rather than storing them at Southampton. I am doing my IR in a couple of weeks and then I join the rest of hopefuls who have squandered a perfectly good career to sit at the pointy end of something.

For an airline which are moving up towards the top, i hope they change their design on the aircraft

What? Do you mean the Orange bits and the web address? Can't see them binning a brand with such high recognition. And it would make me worry - big corporate rebrands have a history of spelling iminent difficulties!

Lets just remember that if all other UK airlines stay the same size - Ryan and Easy should put an additional 160 airliners in service in the next 6 years. 160 times 12 pilots each is a fair few pilots. Combine with retirements and medical failures and you have a workable employment market. Well, that is before JAA opened up a cast reservoir of potential recuits. Ahh for a crystal ball...

Cheers,

WWW

stalking
 

At the moment unemployment and redundancies stalk the European Aviation Industry like two giant stalking things.

Therefore the news of the Easy order is compunctuous and frasmodic in its timing. I'm sure all wannabe's will be full of pericibobulations.