FlyBe axing jobs
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Any ideas where to look for a new job?
Suggestions please for type rated pilots on the E190/170 and DHC8-400!!
Thanks all!
Suggestions please for type rated pilots on the E190/170 and DHC8-400!!
Thanks all!
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flydubai is a good place for flybe guys/girls to go, I can speak from experiance!
However im told that courses for non-type rated pilots are at the moment full up until beyond summer 2014
However im told that courses for non-type rated pilots are at the moment full up until beyond summer 2014
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I'm afraid incredibly poor management and poor people management is what this generation of so called executives are all about...it's all I've witnessed since been made redundant in 2010 for one of the UK's best airlines. The depth of experience is very bad, most relying on whatever Squadron life has taught them.
To live and work in the UK now as a pilot requires considerable compromises! Pay, basing, commuting, lifestyle. Best of luck to all you guys with these FlyBe ratings.
To live and work in the UK now as a pilot requires considerable compromises! Pay, basing, commuting, lifestyle. Best of luck to all you guys with these FlyBe ratings.
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Speaking as someone who went through the first round of this back in January-May of this year I can only applaud the utter good grace and professionalism of my colleagues to carry on coming into work giving it their all whilst their world was falling apart around them. These people will have spent virtually the entirety of 2013 working with their jobs under threat. They are not to blame for the mess this airline is in and yet are carrying the can. I've said it before but best of luck to all my friends and former colleagues. To say they deserve better is this year's biggest understatement.
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Japan ?
If it interests you, try Skymark or Air Japan. Might not be everyone's cup of tea but there are jobs and you don't have to pay for a type rating. Not as hot as the desert or worked as hard. Would suit the jungle jet folk only though, sorry and good luck to the dash8 people. Yes it might be contract but it is stable(as much as it can be).
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Not sure if it's still on offer, but SunExpress in Turkey were recently advertising specifically for Q400 captains for direct entry command on to B737-800.....might still be worth a try!......good luck to all!!
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So what exactly is going on at flybe, redundancies with cadets replacing them or what? Or has nothing been decided about the cadets who have just finished up at Jerez and waiting for an answer.
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Positions rather than people are made redundant. There are statutory regulations which prevent companies from making positions redundant and then re-hiring new staff to fill the same positions. It can't happen unless the individuals being let go sign a disclaimer surrendering their rights (usually for an enhanced severance package).
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...prevent companies from making positions redundant and then re-hiring new staff to fill the same positions
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...prevent companies from making positions redundant and then re-hiring new staff to fill the same positions
Nothing to stop you making 6 First Officer positions redundant, and replacing them with 6 cadet positions.
Except there is Clunk because there is no such pay scale or position as "cadet pilot" in the Part A. There is Captain, Senior FO and FO.
...prevent companies from making positions redundant and then re-hiring new staff to fill the same positions
Nothing to stop you making 6 First Officer positions redundant, and replacing them with 6 cadet positions.
Except there is Clunk because there is no such pay scale or position as "cadet pilot" in the Part A. There is Captain, Senior FO and FO.
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We're still hanging on none the wiser, the letters are apparently going out on Monday yet we, the workforce are still in the dark. The real figure being banded around is more like 140-180 but apparently there's 60 odd who have secured employment elsewhere. We just don't know.
We're still hanging on none the wiser, the letters are apparently going out on Monday yet we, the workforce are still in the dark. The real figure being banded around is more like 140-180 but apparently there's 60 odd who have secured employment elsewhere. We just don't know.
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Artic Monkey it sounds very reminiscent of January when some of us learnt of the threat to our jobs via local radio, who had the exact figures before we did. Hopefully lessons have been learnt from the utterly disgraceful way it was dealt with then but not sounding promising. Good luck to all you guys as has been stated.