No Thomson recruitment for some time
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With you VJW - have heard also from a senior at Thomson that recruitment is now planned for next year - no recruitment was planned but seems things have changed slightly and a need next year is now driving recruitment in 2011.
Please correct me if i'm wrong.
Please correct me if i'm wrong.
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Bluebaron's news comes from the latest TOM pilot news letter - so probably the most accurate news available. Great shame for those outside the airline as well as those inside, with the realisation that for many FOs, a command maybe over 17 year away!
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Could this be a 'divide and conquer' tool? I can see the opening gambit at next years pay negotiations... 'hey guys let us close that expensive final salary pension and we will expand thus letting you FOs get a command in the next couple of years'.
Don't suppose many of the ex Air 2bob guys who cant get on the FS pension would be too bothered if this situation came to pass.
Don't suppose many of the ex Air 2bob guys who cant get on the FS pension would be too bothered if this situation came to pass.
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Maybe a few to BA, not Virgin - reduction in TCs
The article in question was the most pessimistic view, assuming no change in fleet size, no early retirements, no PHI, no one leaving for pastures new and everyone returning from career breaks. Any of these changes (which they will) and of course doors will be open.
The management are being very down on everything at the min, trying to get folk out of the door, not a bad tactic if recruitment was hot but alas....
DC
ps, if and when recruitment starts, don't expect popular bases, NCL will be my bet.
The article in question was the most pessimistic view, assuming no change in fleet size, no early retirements, no PHI, no one leaving for pastures new and everyone returning from career breaks. Any of these changes (which they will) and of course doors will be open.
The management are being very down on everything at the min, trying to get folk out of the door, not a bad tactic if recruitment was hot but alas....
DC
ps, if and when recruitment starts, don't expect popular bases, NCL will be my bet.
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From: MAN
Recruitment was planned for Autumn 2011 due 787 deliveries in Jan/Feb/Mar 2012. Whether that get's delayed due to the current production problems, who knows?
There were rumblings of a small amount of recruitment Spring 2011, probably via CTC or the other Intergrated schools. Figures depend on how many leave for BA.
Expect, when it does happen, to be summer only contracts, most likely not permanent, and forget anything you see on PPJN re Ts and Cs. They're already dropping hints about a new contract for joiners with lower salary, possibly no increments and less days off per month.
Also expect NCL, CWA and possibly EMA/BHX. LGW and MAN are full.
Everything at the moment is about cost reductions and reducing the summer/winter imbalance
There were rumblings of a small amount of recruitment Spring 2011, probably via CTC or the other Intergrated schools. Figures depend on how many leave for BA.
Expect, when it does happen, to be summer only contracts, most likely not permanent, and forget anything you see on PPJN re Ts and Cs. They're already dropping hints about a new contract for joiners with lower salary, possibly no increments and less days off per month.
Also expect NCL, CWA and possibly EMA/BHX. LGW and MAN are full.
Everything at the moment is about cost reductions and reducing the summer/winter imbalance
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Ha! that made me laugh, just echoing the fact that the company has failed to fill it for years, no-one ever volunteers to go there.
Callsign Kilo, GLA popular I reckon.
Update: 30 rumoured to be leaving.
Callsign Kilo, GLA popular I reckon.
Update: 30 rumoured to be leaving.
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great company if you are senior - truley bad company if you are junior. With no movement high up in the ranks this situation will remain for many years. Senior boys yearly get all nice leave, all nice trips, all lucrative winter secondments and summer temporay basing. Good for a rating and thats about it really!
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From: England
Fly Better! - Whilst it is true that some of the career break pilots are returning (not all it has to be said), those that were forced from the company have absolutely NO right of return agreement. They were told by the company that they would have to undergo the full recruitment process that everyone else would be subjected to.
Whether this actually happens remains to be seen. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is some last minute recruitment at TOM this summer when some of the FO's are given start dates at BA/Virgin.
Whether this actually happens remains to be seen. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is some last minute recruitment at TOM this summer when some of the FO's are given start dates at BA/Virgin.