BA CityFlyer recruitment and assessment

[RJ100]

G-IMZO

Don’t plan on an EDI base. If it’s a Capt position It’ll be dead mans shoes. Many have been promised this in the past and never given it. People have left prior to an EDI base being offered. The last group to get it did so on the understanding it would full-time summer part-time winter. I think on 75% salary with a 100% summer roster and 50% winter, don’t quote me on the exact deal. . That’s was about 3 years ago and nothing since. They were also fairly high up on seniority list! They have recruited FOs directly to EDI.

[monkey.tennis]

Originally Posted by RJ100

G-IMZO

Don’t plan on an EDI base. If it’s a Capt position It’ll be dead mans shoes. Many have been promised this in the past and never given it. People have left prior to an EDI base being offered. The last group to get it did so on the understanding it would full-time summer part-time winter. I think on 75% salary with a 100% summer roster and 50% winter, don’t quote me on the exact deal. . That’s was about 3 years ago and nothing since. They were also fairly high up on seniority list! They have recruited FOs directly to EDI.

RJ100, you’re clearly a bit out of date. EDI commands have become very easy to get recently, only a few years in the company. Recent commands in EDI have been at 100%, anyone on 50/100% is doing so by choice . Obviously there’s no guarantee that will continue forever so don’t bank on 2 years but that’s the current state of play.

[Flocks]

Hello all.

Short questions about BA City flyers, maybe for some it won t sound important, but it is for me.
In your SOP, are you doing like I heard in BA Mainline? Meaning : Monitoring approach all the time ?
Can you do visual approach ? Switch off autothrottle ? Flight director ?

Just asking how confident is the airline about manual flight?

Thanks

[this is my username]

Bases

Can anyone confirm what the current BACF pilot bases are? Is Bristol a base, and if so how hard is it to get in to as an FO?

[VinRouge]

Originally Posted by this is my username

Can anyone confirm what the current BACF pilot bases are? Is Bristol a base, and if so how hard is it to get in to as an FO?

LCY and EDI although I think you can request max tours to cut down on the commuting.

EDI I believe is via bid from seniority only so pretty much you will start at LCY
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[RJ100]

Originally Posted by VinRouge

LCY and EDI although I think you can request max tours to cut down on the commuting.

EDI I believe is via bid from seniority only so pretty much you will start at LCY
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FO basing could be either EDI or LCY. Capt initial basing tends to be LCY.

[TriBeCa]

I’ve been invited to the assessment but it’s an up front payment of £250. Is this more of a money making exercise rather than a legitimate interview?

[aileron]

It’s an insight to the company’s ethos.

[busybee123]

£250 for an interview for the lowest paying jet airline job in the UK. No thanks.
Tell em to do one and apply to one of the other much better paying companies out there.
They need you just as much as you need them in this current job market.

[4engines4longhaul]

250 quid for an interview, am I reading that right ? Crikey no wonder they are short of crew. Would love to hear from one of their HR luvvies on here trying to justify it. In fact, having just gulped a large glass it stinks and quite frankly....nuff said

[this is my username]

If anyone has attended the current round of assessments with Kura for the >1,000hr recruitment, could you share any info on the technical tests? Are they standard aptitude tests or are they ATPL-type technical questions?

thanks

[JUST-local]

Anyone with any feedback

[nanocas]

Help needed! I have received the invitation email a few days ago to attend the assessment... I have to book the date online but every time I log in there are no dates available to book... And I keep receiving email reminders to book the interview... no phone number provided to contact them... have sent them emails but no feedback... anyone experienced same problems? or does this just mean i was too late in booking my interview and now its gone?
Any suggestions?

[this is my username]

https://www.kuraaviation.com/contact-us/

Phone numbers are at the bottom of the page.

[RJ100]

Change to process

Last week BACF changed the process. All recruitment for FO and DEC will now be handled by BA Mainline. I’m not sure how it was listed prior to this but now you’ll see BACityFlyer under pilot roles on the main BA careers pilot page. It will also be the same process as BA interviews.
All those invited for interview from Sept 21st for dates starting in October will now be via the new process.

[nightfright]

thanks for the update RJ100

Any idea on what to expect for BA assessent?

[RJ100]

BACF Recruitment process will mirror that of BA. So based on what I’ve read on the BA assessment.

Day 1. Maths, Verbal reasoning & computer based capacity test.
Day 2. Interview & Group exercise.
Day 3. Sim.

there is plenty of info on this website about the BA process so I’d probably start reading those pages.

[PinkyPonkPilot]

Originally Posted by RJ100

BACF Recruitment process will mirror that of BA. So based on what I’ve read on the BA assessment.

Day 1. Maths, Verbal reasoning & computer based capacity test.
Day 2. Interview & Group exercise.
Day 3. Sim.

there is plenty of info on this website about the BA process so I’d probably start reading those pages.

Surely if you're going to go through all that you may as well be applying to mainline and get yourself on the MSL sooner rather than later. I suspect this might end up causing more issues than it solves for BACF recruitment.

[RJ100]

Originally Posted by PinkyPonkPilot

Surely if you're going to go through all that you may as well be applying to mainline and get yourself on the MSL sooner rather than later. I suspect this might end up causing more issues than it solves for BACF recruitment.

yep. That’s the thought process of a lot of us at BACF. only ones it’ll appeal to is the low time 10t people who don’t meet BA requirements.
Money wise DEC at yr1 BACF isn’t far off FO year 1 with extra payments at mainline(long haul). Why’d you bother?

[Jet Set Willie]

Nightfright. Not true for the assessment. FO does one day with no sim. Captain does 2 days with sim. Under 10T still go through KURA and MPL still through FTE Jerez. L3 contract finished and this has basically replaced it.