Pilot shortage hits BA.

[bluepilot]

Noticed that they are asking for applications again on the web site. I would have thought all those interested would have applied by now.

Now if they were to improve the conditions i.e a pension that is worth while I am sure many more would be interested

[A320rider]

if you are not happy with BA payscale, why don' t you leave.

I would work for free of for 1$/hour...

[Thin Albert]

Pilots have become very goavoiding the dreaded call and so BA has been left cancelling a number of flights.[/quoteod at ]

What the hell is so difficult as to avoid a companys phonecall, if you are not on reserve or standby?Do you have to have at all a portable or any other kind of telephone?

I thought only the SWISS are so stupid and going to work on an offday for free!!!
Cheerio
TA

[maxy101]

Thin Albert ...How do you avoid the manager at the bottom of the aircraft steps drafting you to go to work on your next days off? Or managers using their own mobile phones to draft people so that pilots that call screen wont recognise it as a BA number. It is all getting a bit silly there now. I know a lot of pilots that give BA a PAYG mobile number as a home contact. Hardly satisfactory though , is it?

[Signora_Matta]

Well that surely would depend on wether they are answering said PAYG mobile or just ignoring it like some of the foreign based pilots do!!

[captwannabe]

Originally Posted by madmax100

BA are not gonna be struggling to find pilots anymore! Instead, they plan to integrate a whole load of Aer Lingus Pilots onto the Airbus Fleet, non of whom will have been through the DEP selection! BA Balpa have also signed up to the deal!

What a load of cr*p. No pilots want to leave Aer Lingus, they're very well looked after by the airline. There is no surplus, and they're even recalling their 2001 cadets because they're getting a couple of A320s.

[Human Factor]

captwannabe,

You may want to check the date of madmax's post.

BA proposed to use seconded Aer Lingus pilots for a while until BALPA put them straight. Was over a year ago though....

[overstress]

A320rider started it by saying he/she would work for $1 an hour - fine, go ahead! But why trawl back a year to make a meaningless statement like that?