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Is somebody out there who had the easyJet workshop not too long ago? I know, there are already a lot of topics about that in this forum, but it doesn't help a lot!
Would really apprecitate some hot infos!
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Would really apprecitate some hot infos!
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Hi mcki, I went just before xmas.
Day 1 starts with a introductory to Easyjet about how well the company has performed and the staff who are assessing you will introduce themselves.
First task is the technical exam which consists of 40 questions, 20 to 30 of them will be out of the Cathay interview book but might be worded slightly different. Second task is the group excercise which can be from evacuating a village that has become flooded to making up words or letters using some tubing, each type of tube has a different cost to use while different letters has a profit value and you have to work as a group to find the most profitable letters or words that will be the most cost effective to make a profit followed by the 400 questions you have to sit through to see if you are a normal person or a nut case.
You are then split into groups one group will start to get interviewed and the other group will sit an ability test. The ability test consists of a box of cards and you have to find the missing information by looking at the other cards which contain the information and find the sequence. I was average in this test which was better than I had expected to do.
The interview can last for 40 minutes to an hour and there will be 2 or 3 people interviewing you. They will ask a little bit about yourself and then the training Captain will ask lots of technical questions which can range from the standard how does a jet engine work to describe the performance profile and each segment of the climb. Then you will be asked about times when you have encountered CRM problems and how you dealt with it and ask for examples.
At the end of it you will be given a debrief on how well or bad you went and told where you can improve, if successful you will be asked back for the second day of a sim ride which is done in the 737-300.
You will have to do 3 SIDS and improve on each one as well has some steep turns and then be asked to debrief the instructor on how well or not you think you did and where you could improve. This is done to test your learning curve and to see if you need to go on the advanced handling course prior to starting your type rating. The instructor can not give you information on how well you did, he will write a report and inform Easyjet who will then decide if they are going to offer you a position and will contact you within a few days.
Overall I did not have time to prepare for the day. I found the 2 days to be good fun and I did give a lot of banter with the Easyjet staff including during the interview itself where a lot of banter was exchanged between myself and the staff and it was a good laugh. Overall I was impressed with Easyjet and the staff were excellent very friendly and relaxed but don't let that fool you they are testing you and it is a difficult selection to get through, they did lay on food for us through lunch and the staff did mingle with everybody during lunch again this would be a test because they are getting a further idea about what type of person you are without you knowing it.
Go for it and enjoy the day, be yourself, have fun with it and what ever you do do not wear a suit or tie just a nice pair of trousers and shirt will do.
I did not think I would have a hope in hell of getting through because I'm as thick as they come but I did and got lucky with a UK basing on the 737 starting in March which is not happening very often. During my debrief I did well in the technical, avarage in the ability test, ok in the group excercise and excellent in the interview which was what I think did it for me they said they liked my attitude and sense of humour and thought I would fit in.
What are they like to fly for on the line I don't know but if they are half as good as my current airline to work for then bonus.
Good luck to you.
Day 1 starts with a introductory to Easyjet about how well the company has performed and the staff who are assessing you will introduce themselves.
First task is the technical exam which consists of 40 questions, 20 to 30 of them will be out of the Cathay interview book but might be worded slightly different. Second task is the group excercise which can be from evacuating a village that has become flooded to making up words or letters using some tubing, each type of tube has a different cost to use while different letters has a profit value and you have to work as a group to find the most profitable letters or words that will be the most cost effective to make a profit followed by the 400 questions you have to sit through to see if you are a normal person or a nut case.
You are then split into groups one group will start to get interviewed and the other group will sit an ability test. The ability test consists of a box of cards and you have to find the missing information by looking at the other cards which contain the information and find the sequence. I was average in this test which was better than I had expected to do.
The interview can last for 40 minutes to an hour and there will be 2 or 3 people interviewing you. They will ask a little bit about yourself and then the training Captain will ask lots of technical questions which can range from the standard how does a jet engine work to describe the performance profile and each segment of the climb. Then you will be asked about times when you have encountered CRM problems and how you dealt with it and ask for examples.
At the end of it you will be given a debrief on how well or bad you went and told where you can improve, if successful you will be asked back for the second day of a sim ride which is done in the 737-300.
You will have to do 3 SIDS and improve on each one as well has some steep turns and then be asked to debrief the instructor on how well or not you think you did and where you could improve. This is done to test your learning curve and to see if you need to go on the advanced handling course prior to starting your type rating. The instructor can not give you information on how well you did, he will write a report and inform Easyjet who will then decide if they are going to offer you a position and will contact you within a few days.
Overall I did not have time to prepare for the day. I found the 2 days to be good fun and I did give a lot of banter with the Easyjet staff including during the interview itself where a lot of banter was exchanged between myself and the staff and it was a good laugh. Overall I was impressed with Easyjet and the staff were excellent very friendly and relaxed but don't let that fool you they are testing you and it is a difficult selection to get through, they did lay on food for us through lunch and the staff did mingle with everybody during lunch again this would be a test because they are getting a further idea about what type of person you are without you knowing it.
Go for it and enjoy the day, be yourself, have fun with it and what ever you do do not wear a suit or tie just a nice pair of trousers and shirt will do.
I did not think I would have a hope in hell of getting through because I'm as thick as they come but I did and got lucky with a UK basing on the 737 starting in March which is not happening very often. During my debrief I did well in the technical, avarage in the ability test, ok in the group excercise and excellent in the interview which was what I think did it for me they said they liked my attitude and sense of humour and thought I would fit in.
What are they like to fly for on the line I don't know but if they are half as good as my current airline to work for then bonus.
Good luck to you.
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Hi Stone Cold and Norman
Do you have any idea if Easy are still accepting DEC on the B737 fleet ? During my interview I was given the choice of either Boeing or Airbus however my impression at the moment is that you are expected to convert to Airbus on joining?
Do you have any idea if Easy are still accepting DEC on the B737 fleet ? During my interview I was given the choice of either Boeing or Airbus however my impression at the moment is that you are expected to convert to Airbus on joining?
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737-300 or 700?
Stone cold,
Congrats on your job offer. Will you start on the 737-300 or the 700? Lastly, are most newhires offered a choice between the Airbus or the 737-300/700 or are they typically placed on one fleet (no choice)? My impression was that most newhires are going straight to the Airbus...
Cheers
Congrats on your job offer. Will you start on the 737-300 or the 700? Lastly, are most newhires offered a choice between the Airbus or the 737-300/700 or are they typically placed on one fleet (no choice)? My impression was that most newhires are going straight to the Airbus...
Cheers
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I wasn't given the option, in general most new hires are put on the Airbus with being based overseas.
I would not have taken the job if I was to be based overseas due to personal circumstances and I told
ezy that. Fair play to them they came back to me within 2 days to say they would put me on the 737-300 and 700 with a definate uk base, with BRS my first choice or LTN being my likely intial base
I'm currently being based in LTN which is not my first choice but they have told me I can expect to be in BRS sooner than I think which is where I need to be.
Can't complain at all about the way I've been treated by eze they seem to be doing everything to make me feel welcome which is nice.
I would not have taken the job if I was to be based overseas due to personal circumstances and I told
ezy that. Fair play to them they came back to me within 2 days to say they would put me on the 737-300 and 700 with a definate uk base, with BRS my first choice or LTN being my likely intial base
I'm currently being based in LTN which is not my first choice but they have told me I can expect to be in BRS sooner than I think which is where I need to be.
Can't complain at all about the way I've been treated by eze they seem to be doing everything to make me feel welcome which is nice.
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Promise not to laugh - in answer to your question, it depends when you ask! There has been some internal discontent due to external candidates being offered dec's on the 737 at Luton when there is a queue of newly-promoted captains in Belfast, among other places, waiting to get a slot there. This is an issue the company will have to address themselves to as there is a widespread perception that the command allocation system is stacked against internal transfers. It may seem attractive to you right now, but believe me when you are sat in some foreign outpost of the empire trying to get home to live with your family in a few months time then you will be mightily displeased when an external candidate gets your job!
Therefore the short answer is, yes there are currently dec's on the 737 at easyJet and the way easyJet works it is perfectly possible that if your base converts to the Airbus you will wake up with an Airbus rating within a year - can't be bad! The reason I am slightly reticent to say anything definitive is that easyJet recruitment targets vary dramatically from week to week. All you need is a couple of captain resignations to go to Emirates, Virgin, BA etc and the picture changes.
I am a captain on the Airbus and our world is completely different from that of the 737 - it is almost like 2 different companies. Also you cannot compare lifestyles between different bases as they vary so much. All I can tell you is that I have a busy roster for March - 92 block hours made up of 16 flying days half of which are 4 sector days and the other half 2 sector days. There are no nightstops planned and I will end up back at Gatwick every night. The routes can be seen by going on the company website to get a feel where everyone goes to from each base. Most important of all - it is great fun! Hope that helps.
Therefore the short answer is, yes there are currently dec's on the 737 at easyJet and the way easyJet works it is perfectly possible that if your base converts to the Airbus you will wake up with an Airbus rating within a year - can't be bad! The reason I am slightly reticent to say anything definitive is that easyJet recruitment targets vary dramatically from week to week. All you need is a couple of captain resignations to go to Emirates, Virgin, BA etc and the picture changes.
I am a captain on the Airbus and our world is completely different from that of the 737 - it is almost like 2 different companies. Also you cannot compare lifestyles between different bases as they vary so much. All I can tell you is that I have a busy roster for March - 92 block hours made up of 16 flying days half of which are 4 sector days and the other half 2 sector days. There are no nightstops planned and I will end up back at Gatwick every night. The routes can be seen by going on the company website to get a feel where everyone goes to from each base. Most important of all - it is great fun! Hope that helps.
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Norman,
So, when you say the airbus is totally different, do you mean better rosters? Longer legs? Are your flights all from LGW and back? Do you ever fly through another one of your bases and then onto a normal destination, or do you always fly to and from LGW? Thanks so much. Cheers!
So, when you say the airbus is totally different, do you mean better rosters? Longer legs? Are your flights all from LGW and back? Do you ever fly through another one of your bases and then onto a normal destination, or do you always fly to and from LGW? Thanks so much. Cheers!
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Hi Donkey Duke
The reason I say the Airbus is different is that a re-equipping process from 737 to 319 has been going on well over a year now and will continue well into the future. The net effect from an line pilot's perspective is that at Gatwick in particular they have not worked particularly hard compared to the 737 guys. There are a variety of reasons for this such as artificially keeping crew numbers high during transition and the huge line training burden out of Gatwick. As time goes on that will obviously sort itself out as clearly easyJet want all their pilots to fly to the maximum they can. Also because of delays here and there to the arrival of the Airbuses there have been too many 319 pilots and not enough 737 guys as all the 737 guys were being retrained onto the bus thereby puting a big burden on those 737 pilots still on it. Once again and self-evidently this is only a temporary transient which will resolve itself in time. Anyone who has ever been involved in re-equipping will know the rostering nightmares that can occur.
In terms of the work pattern, at the moment I virtually always work out of Gatwick and do not transit through the other bases. In a year I have had 3 days in Berlin and 3 days in Paris - the rest of the time has been in Gatwick. Again, I am only one guy but that is my personal experience.
To complicate the picture further there has just been an announcement today that the next Airbus bases will be East Midlands and Bristol starting soon and finishing by April 2006. That will mean that we have a lot of Airbus bases both in the UK and in mainland Europe - East Midlands, Bristol, Gatwick and Stansted in the UK plus Berlin, Dortmund, Basel and Geneva on the continent. As these bases come on line it seem inevitable to me that crew shortages etc will mean al lot of last minute movement to these other bases to cover flights but I cannot say that with absolute certainty.
I hope that answers the question.
The reason I say the Airbus is different is that a re-equipping process from 737 to 319 has been going on well over a year now and will continue well into the future. The net effect from an line pilot's perspective is that at Gatwick in particular they have not worked particularly hard compared to the 737 guys. There are a variety of reasons for this such as artificially keeping crew numbers high during transition and the huge line training burden out of Gatwick. As time goes on that will obviously sort itself out as clearly easyJet want all their pilots to fly to the maximum they can. Also because of delays here and there to the arrival of the Airbuses there have been too many 319 pilots and not enough 737 guys as all the 737 guys were being retrained onto the bus thereby puting a big burden on those 737 pilots still on it. Once again and self-evidently this is only a temporary transient which will resolve itself in time. Anyone who has ever been involved in re-equipping will know the rostering nightmares that can occur.
In terms of the work pattern, at the moment I virtually always work out of Gatwick and do not transit through the other bases. In a year I have had 3 days in Berlin and 3 days in Paris - the rest of the time has been in Gatwick. Again, I am only one guy but that is my personal experience.
To complicate the picture further there has just been an announcement today that the next Airbus bases will be East Midlands and Bristol starting soon and finishing by April 2006. That will mean that we have a lot of Airbus bases both in the UK and in mainland Europe - East Midlands, Bristol, Gatwick and Stansted in the UK plus Berlin, Dortmund, Basel and Geneva on the continent. As these bases come on line it seem inevitable to me that crew shortages etc will mean al lot of last minute movement to these other bases to cover flights but I cannot say that with absolute certainty.
I hope that answers the question.
Last edited by Norman Stanley Fletcher; 7th Mar 2005 at 00:25.
