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what's happening?
hi, considering moving to orange, i know you guys have a private forum where internal stuff is discussed more in detail but would be interesting for the likes of myself to understand what is happening.. rumours i heard is to make you pay transportation to sim and other "pay cuts", cost savings from management that do remind me of what's happening with another lo-co, what is really going on?
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Management as always will try and save where they can, normally targeting crew, but I can assure you that those rumours you are hearing are all non starters as they would have to be voted on. The feeling I am getting is that they wouldnt pass in a million years.
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spanish lessons
Apoligies. My english is not to good. I hope you dont disgininate against Spanish pilots at easy.
I believe we will all be ok. Easy have plenty of money aside to get through this hard time.
I believe we will all be ok. Easy have plenty of money aside to get through this hard time.
Join Date: May 2004
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and can you vote against redunduncy and financial crisis mate?
Bon chance, we will all need it.
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thanks for your answer "Bite Mort", DB is waiting for some new CRJ1000s, which is good news. Anyway, I have joined the mainline now. I will try to follow your advices and worry a bit about my airline 
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I don't think so
...Unless I fail during the training in AF
Or unless I am fed up with AF and I want to do 4 sectors a day with 25 min turnaround, reporting extremely early in the night morning and to come back home very late in the afternoon or reporting at midday to come back very late after 01:00AM, in an A320 all my life, with MINIMUM FUEL (ALWAYS), flying with foreigners, with ugly hostesses... We never know
Enjoy Easyjet
(good luck for dreaming BA, Virgin, Cathay, Qatar, Korean,....)
...Unless I fail during the training in AF
Or unless I am fed up with AF and I want to do 4 sectors a day with 25 min turnaround, reporting extremely early in the night morning and to come back home very late in the afternoon or reporting at midday to come back very late after 01:00AM, in an A320 all my life, with MINIMUM FUEL (ALWAYS), flying with foreigners, with ugly hostesses... We never know
Enjoy Easyjet
(good luck for dreaming BA, Virgin, Cathay, Qatar, Korean,....)
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Maybe you will fail if you spend all of your time here instead of studying for your new position.
I don't see why you insist on dragging easyjet through the dirt on here and constantly putting people down who work for them, going on and on about big airlines being so great to work for.
Why don't you grow up a bit, you work for a large professional airline, so try acting like you do and not like a child who is always trying to get one over on his friends in the playground at school.
I'd hate to think of any of my friends or family being flown by somebody like you.
I don't see why you insist on dragging easyjet through the dirt on here and constantly putting people down who work for them, going on and on about big airlines being so great to work for.
Why don't you grow up a bit, you work for a large professional airline, so try acting like you do and not like a child who is always trying to get one over on his friends in the playground at school.
I'd hate to think of any of my friends or family being flown by somebody like you.
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Im glad to see nuageblanc didnt add Air France to the list of dream airlines, at least he has got something right!
Top tip nuage, always be nice while climbing the greasy pole as you never know who you will meet on the way back down!
Top tip nuage, always be nice while climbing the greasy pole as you never know who you will meet on the way back down!
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Just to correct a few inaccuracies that have arisen -
nuageblanc - your own personal inadequacies are allowing the truth to get in the way of a good story. EasyJet do not ALWAYS take minimum fuel. EasyJet policy is to carry Computerised Flight Plan (CFP) fuel - pilots should have a specific purpose to carry extra. Extra fuel is only carried if there is a strong possibility of it being used – ie thunderstorms in the vicintiy, destination weather at or near limits, an unscheduled runway closure due weather, x-wind, contaminated runways, ATC dep/arr delays, poss extra approaches at destination or forecast icing en-route. In practice that means if the Commander has a sensible reason for taking extra fuel he does so - I do it often for any of the above reasons and have never, ever had a single comment made of any kind. I see nothing unsafe or unreasonable in the above policy - it is just plain common sense.
Regarding the comments about GB pilots, I used to work for GB and came to easyJet nearly 5 years ago as a volunteer. I have worked for both companies for several years and have found both to be friendly, professional and hard-working. There have indeed been some teething problems in the integration process, but overall it has been a great success. The vast majority of GB pilots are glad to be at easyJet in the current climate and although some of the more senior (a relative handful) of their pilots have lost out financially, a whole lot more have done very well. Like any airline we have our pressures in the current climate, but overall it is a great place to be - not surprisingly there is a huge queue of pilots waiting to join us. It is the intention of all pilots at easyJet, from whatever background, to join together to ensure that the conditions we currently enjoy are not eroded due to ill-considered and precipitous action by over-zealous managers. Any pressures we currently face have had the effect of uniting all pilots together and that is being reflected in the growth of our union membership. I am personally delighted our ex-GB colleagues are with us and fully expect to have a long and happy career flying besides them. In a very short time, there will be no talk of GB Airways - just a larger group of easyJet pilots.
I hope that clarifies any doubts that may have been raised.
nuageblanc - your own personal inadequacies are allowing the truth to get in the way of a good story. EasyJet do not ALWAYS take minimum fuel. EasyJet policy is to carry Computerised Flight Plan (CFP) fuel - pilots should have a specific purpose to carry extra. Extra fuel is only carried if there is a strong possibility of it being used – ie thunderstorms in the vicintiy, destination weather at or near limits, an unscheduled runway closure due weather, x-wind, contaminated runways, ATC dep/arr delays, poss extra approaches at destination or forecast icing en-route. In practice that means if the Commander has a sensible reason for taking extra fuel he does so - I do it often for any of the above reasons and have never, ever had a single comment made of any kind. I see nothing unsafe or unreasonable in the above policy - it is just plain common sense.
Regarding the comments about GB pilots, I used to work for GB and came to easyJet nearly 5 years ago as a volunteer. I have worked for both companies for several years and have found both to be friendly, professional and hard-working. There have indeed been some teething problems in the integration process, but overall it has been a great success. The vast majority of GB pilots are glad to be at easyJet in the current climate and although some of the more senior (a relative handful) of their pilots have lost out financially, a whole lot more have done very well. Like any airline we have our pressures in the current climate, but overall it is a great place to be - not surprisingly there is a huge queue of pilots waiting to join us. It is the intention of all pilots at easyJet, from whatever background, to join together to ensure that the conditions we currently enjoy are not eroded due to ill-considered and precipitous action by over-zealous managers. Any pressures we currently face have had the effect of uniting all pilots together and that is being reflected in the growth of our union membership. I am personally delighted our ex-GB colleagues are with us and fully expect to have a long and happy career flying besides them. In a very short time, there will be no talk of GB Airways - just a larger group of easyJet pilots.
I hope that clarifies any doubts that may have been raised.
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Well said, NSF, but I fear you have worn your typing finger to no good purpose. Big Chief White Cloud is a well-known troll.
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with ugly hostesses...
Anyway,
Back to the thread. Good luck to those swimming, hope you get some positive news soon.
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Enjoy Easyjet (good luck for dreaming BA, Virgin, Cathay, Qatar, Korean,....)