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Flintstone:
Having been in the business for over 50 years, I love your ideals. However, I think they are rather out of date.
The air taxi job at my local airfield has just been taken by a very experienced airline captain who just happens to be "resting" right now.
Perhaps you could persuade him to stand down in favour of one of your up-and-coming aviators who needs to build his experience?
I doubt it somehow.
Having been in the business for over 50 years, I love your ideals. However, I think they are rather out of date.
The air taxi job at my local airfield has just been taken by a very experienced airline captain who just happens to be "resting" right now.
Perhaps you could persuade him to stand down in favour of one of your up-and-coming aviators who needs to build his experience?
I doubt it somehow.
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Has anyone tried asking him? You might be pleasantly surprised.
I frequent a local airfield where I stand around drinking coffee and handing spanners to my mate the engineer. Several years ago I was offered a FI position there (in between my full time job). One look at the incumbent instructors was enough to convince me to say no. How could anyone take the hours from them and sleep at night?
I frequent a local airfield where I stand around drinking coffee and handing spanners to my mate the engineer. Several years ago I was offered a FI position there (in between my full time job). One look at the incumbent instructors was enough to convince me to say no. How could anyone take the hours from them and sleep at night?
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way to go mizwings! You must take credit for using your initiative in times like these - like they say - use all the tools in your box - play the cards you've got - etc etc keep going & good luck!
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Could any of you kind gentleman help? I recently pass my interview with Ryanair and will start my TR this summer. Please could any of you help with the following?
1) With the news of the new pay deals, has this changed things with the brookfield rates of pay?
2) Once you are brookfield will you ever get a contract, is there anything you can do to influence this?
3) I think they base you anywhere they want but ask you for any preferences. Are there any places you will stand a better chnace to get for the Summer/Autumn. This way you ahve a little more say than being based anywhere if you request paces which clearly have no positions?
4) Finally anyone know which bases will see most expansion, outisde UK?
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1) With the news of the new pay deals, has this changed things with the brookfield rates of pay?
2) Once you are brookfield will you ever get a contract, is there anything you can do to influence this?
3) I think they base you anywhere they want but ask you for any preferences. Are there any places you will stand a better chnace to get for the Summer/Autumn. This way you ahve a little more say than being based anywhere if you request paces which clearly have no positions?
4) Finally anyone know which bases will see most expansion, outisde UK?
Paul
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so,
For the brooksfield i have no news,
once you are brooksfield there is chance, but it is not considered an improvement to someone, you dont have to consider brooksfield like a temporary step, because it is not less or more of a ryanair contract, just different for Ryanair, so there is no progression or regression to and from brooksfield.
They asked me 3 preferences and i said anywhere but UK and they put me where i wanted as n1 choice, but if they dont, you wanna try Spanish bases for the base captains (i know all of them and it is a good place to work) and expansion is always nice if Barcelona opens. Cia is overbooked, Bgy as well, so nothing else on the bright side of the moon.
I hope it helps,
someone else can give more info of other bases,
PS if you like quite and slow learning and "family like" training and flying, go to a small base, if you like to be a number and dont know anybody there, go to a huge base (Dublin, Stansted). I went for the first option, 5 aircraft, which give medium between the small quite base and some variety in flying.
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For the brooksfield i have no news,
once you are brooksfield there is chance, but it is not considered an improvement to someone, you dont have to consider brooksfield like a temporary step, because it is not less or more of a ryanair contract, just different for Ryanair, so there is no progression or regression to and from brooksfield.
They asked me 3 preferences and i said anywhere but UK and they put me where i wanted as n1 choice, but if they dont, you wanna try Spanish bases for the base captains (i know all of them and it is a good place to work) and expansion is always nice if Barcelona opens. Cia is overbooked, Bgy as well, so nothing else on the bright side of the moon.
I hope it helps,
someone else can give more info of other bases,
PS if you like quite and slow learning and "family like" training and flying, go to a small base, if you like to be a number and dont know anybody there, go to a huge base (Dublin, Stansted). I went for the first option, 5 aircraft, which give medium between the small quite base and some variety in flying.
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and expansion is always nice if Barcelona opens
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Reus is horrible - I was there for my first two months on the line with FR. Apart from a couple of jolly Scottish people and Alex behind the airport information desk, nobody there speaks English!
The town is about 80% Catalan, and as a result there's a very strong sense of communism and politcal strain there.
Pretty boring place too...
In saying that, there are some nice restaurants around Plaza Prim in the town centre, and Tarragona (just down the road) is nice.
That was just my personal experience of course, form somebody too ignorant to learn Catalan/Spanish
The town is about 80% Catalan, and as a result there's a very strong sense of communism and politcal strain there.
Pretty boring place too...
In saying that, there are some nice restaurants around Plaza Prim in the town centre, and Tarragona (just down the road) is nice.
That was just my personal experience of course, form somebody too ignorant to learn Catalan/Spanish
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Check on "Airlines, Airports & Routes" ,look a couple of pages back on the Ryanair 6 thread & get up to date with the future of Ryanair in Cataluna.
The future is BCN . . . . GRO & REU ? Time will tell.
The future is BCN . . . . GRO & REU ? Time will tell.
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what this space.......
windcheck,
on another forum there is talk that BCN are courting FR about a base,as the new terminal will be finished by april leaving the old terminal free for a lo-co model............alledgidly
sorry my spelling has gone to sh1t.....musi to byt cesky pivo
reluctant737 ever thaught of a name change to RELENTLESS737??
on another forum there is talk that BCN are courting FR about a base,as the new terminal will be finished by april leaving the old terminal free for a lo-co model............alledgidly
sorry my spelling has gone to sh1t.....musi to byt cesky pivo
reluctant737 ever thaught of a name change to RELENTLESS737??
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Well, airport fees won't be the same in BCN than REU or GRO. Morever Catalunya has bought Spanair, and Vueling is merging with Clickair with the suport of Catalunya and Iberia. Vueling/Clickair is also doing codeshare flights with Emirates.
easyJet was interested in BCN but they've changed their mind.
Ryanair is probably realising that secondary airports are not good anymore.
They have just asked Valencia 4 Millions euros per year up to 2012 in order to come back with a base, but unfortunatelly for the arrogant MOL, Valencia is not very interested in this "low cost offer".
2 Years ago Ryanair was also saying they would build a major base in Castellon (close to Valencia)... now that's all gone.
I think Michael O Leary would like to set up a base in Paris (I mean Beauvais), it seems to be very difficult to fight against the french working law. Maybe they'll come to CDG who knows ? they are almost as expensive as Air France (but the service offered by Ryanair is a total ****, going worse and worse every year)...
easyJet was interested in BCN but they've changed their mind.
Ryanair is probably realising that secondary airports are not good anymore.
They have just asked Valencia 4 Millions euros per year up to 2012 in order to come back with a base, but unfortunatelly for the arrogant MOL, Valencia is not very interested in this "low cost offer".
2 Years ago Ryanair was also saying they would build a major base in Castellon (close to Valencia)... now that's all gone.
I think Michael O Leary would like to set up a base in Paris (I mean Beauvais
), it seems to be very difficult to fight against the french working law. Maybe they'll come to CDG who knows ? they are almost as expensive as Air France (but the service offered by Ryanair is a total ****, going worse and worse every year)...
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I said what i said...Barcelona is the only expansion plan at the moment there, i know it is nothing to do with GRO or REU, for the rest, it is just plain italEnglish
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No no no 
the other way is the hard way ( well it is if you do it properly 
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the other way is the hard way ( well it is if you do it properly )
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skyflaps ...
way to go mizwings! You must take credit for using your initiative in times like these - like they say - use all the tools in your box - play the cards you've got - etc etc keep going & good luck!
Anyway, I will try my darnedest to stop derailing this topic Just thought a bit of oestrogen may inject some humour ......my bad !
