Aer Lingus Hold Pool
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I've never been good at Cluedo but judging by past MissTerrible posts, is she a member of the HR team AT Aer Lingus?
Whatever, she seems to have the painters in.
MissT, what possessed you to started on your "HR have better things to do" rant?
No they don't! If you want to enquire about the status of a job and you have other things hanging in the balance, then it is only right to call up HR.
Or does it disturb you answering the phone? When you're filing your nails, sipping a latte or talking about who got evicted form Big Brother?
Whatever, she seems to have the painters in.
MissT, what possessed you to started on your "HR have better things to do" rant?
No they don't! If you want to enquire about the status of a job and you have other things hanging in the balance, then it is only right to call up HR.
Or does it disturb you answering the phone? When you're filing your nails, sipping a latte or talking about who got evicted form Big Brother?
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Just so you understand that these are the people who spent 117.5m on a voluntary severence scheme for staff but got the sums so wrong on the pension scheme that it's going to cost double what they thought. Hr are a joke. They are incompetent. It's like an exercise in buffoonery, hence the attitude.
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Am blissfully unaware of the behind the door goings on at Aer Lingus,as I suspect most of us are.
Its become apparent that there are no more jobs.I note the threat earlier from the demented HR individual(allegedly)to identify people here,and somehow damage their chances.
I have 5135 hrs 737-2/3/800,should help you to find me in the hold pool.Feel free to despatch me.Hope that will make you feel better!
My experience of the HR individuals I met during the selection in Feb,is at odds to what I hear in these posts from the Galway individual.
Nothing surprises me anymore though,good luck with hunt guys and gals.
Its become apparent that there are no more jobs.I note the threat earlier from the demented HR individual(allegedly)to identify people here,and somehow damage their chances.
I have 5135 hrs 737-2/3/800,should help you to find me in the hold pool.Feel free to despatch me.Hope that will make you feel better!
My experience of the HR individuals I met during the selection in Feb,is at odds to what I hear in these posts from the Galway individual.
Nothing surprises me anymore though,good luck with hunt guys and gals.
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I would think it is highly unlikely that AL would be recruiting for flight crew in the near future. Reasons are:-
- big announcement from management later this month (was meant to be at the time of the AGM but has somehow slipped) regarding cost cutting/job losses vis a viz "root and branch review"
- management have asked for any flightcrew who is interested in unpaid leave to submit their details
- BFS is temporarily losing an aircraft so there will be a surplus of flight crew hence management have asked for volunteers interested in unpaid leave. Also those crews might request to transfer to LGW if there are slots available
- The rumour police reckon that there will be a cull of A330 airframes from the fleet and an across the board reduction in frequencies to the mid/long haul destinations. As a result there will be a surplus of A330 pilots. AL is a seniority based airline (with associated agreements) and these guys and girls will need to slot back in somewhere possibly "dislogding" the most junior pilots on the shorthaul fleet - namely the people recently recruited at BFS and LGW.
- The flip side is that AL have announced more routes from LGW. Whilst they haven't said where the airframes and crews will come from I would suspect that they will be the BFS aircraft and some from DUB with DUB crews continuing to overnight to keep the show on the road.
Having said all of that AL management haven't always been the smartest so it could well be that they opt for bringing in more CTC type cadets to fill the RHS and use captains from either BFS or DUB. But I wouldn't hold your breath on the hold pool being cleaned out just yet. To be recruiting whilst you have a potential surplus of pilots that you want to trim/cull would just open yourself up to attack from the legal beagles.
Personally I be looking elsewhere, there are a few scraps of work out there in Asia and Greece.
- big announcement from management later this month (was meant to be at the time of the AGM but has somehow slipped) regarding cost cutting/job losses vis a viz "root and branch review"
- management have asked for any flightcrew who is interested in unpaid leave to submit their details
- BFS is temporarily losing an aircraft so there will be a surplus of flight crew hence management have asked for volunteers interested in unpaid leave. Also those crews might request to transfer to LGW if there are slots available
- The rumour police reckon that there will be a cull of A330 airframes from the fleet and an across the board reduction in frequencies to the mid/long haul destinations. As a result there will be a surplus of A330 pilots. AL is a seniority based airline (with associated agreements) and these guys and girls will need to slot back in somewhere possibly "dislogding" the most junior pilots on the shorthaul fleet - namely the people recently recruited at BFS and LGW.
- The flip side is that AL have announced more routes from LGW. Whilst they haven't said where the airframes and crews will come from I would suspect that they will be the BFS aircraft and some from DUB with DUB crews continuing to overnight to keep the show on the road.
Having said all of that AL management haven't always been the smartest so it could well be that they opt for bringing in more CTC type cadets to fill the RHS and use captains from either BFS or DUB. But I wouldn't hold your breath on the hold pool being cleaned out just yet. To be recruiting whilst you have a potential surplus of pilots that you want to trim/cull would just open yourself up to attack from the legal beagles.
Personally I be looking elsewhere, there are a few scraps of work out there in Asia and Greece.
