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Happy Easter everyone! Anyone who would like to share a fairly junior A320 roster and also shed some light on if the new EASA rules have affected your work greatly on short haul? PM or public, whatever floats your boat 
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
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-25th November application.
-27th November notification of successful application.
-7th December assessment day 1+2 (A one off occurrence I believe having both days in one)
-8th Decemer notification of successful assessment.
-5th January 757 Sim.
-13th January notification of successful sim - entered into the hold pool.
-26th January given a start date to meet my notice period for my current employer.
Applied for LH DEP
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Thx Jimboy, I was wondering how long it takes after the sim to get an entry date 
In my case, Day 1 and 2 weren't combined so it took a bit longer:
- 11th December: Application submitted
- 7th January: Application Outcome
- 21st January: Aptitude tests day
- 26th January: Assessment Outcome
- 10th February: Interview and Group Exercises
- 11th February: Interview Outcome
- 2nd March: 757 Simulator
- 11th March: Sim Outcome
- ???: Still waiting for an entry date :0
In my case, Day 1 and 2 weren't combined so it took a bit longer:
- 11th December: Application submitted
- 7th January: Application Outcome
- 21st January: Aptitude tests day
- 26th January: Assessment Outcome
- 10th February: Interview and Group Exercises
- 11th February: Interview Outcome
- 2nd March: 757 Simulator
- 11th March: Sim Outcome
- ???: Still waiting for an entry date :0
Join Date: Oct 2011
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Does anyone know how tax works on the various elements of pay? Salary taxable at basic/higher rate but what about sector pay (new flying pay allowance) and the time away from base payment? Do either attract any form of tax relief?
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Sector pay taxed as normal. TAFB payments are undergoing HMRC review at moment but currently only 20% is included within your taxable income. Might change in a couple of months though.
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My personal application - I'm sure this varies massively:
-25th November application.
-27th November notification of successful application.
-7th December assessment day 1+2 (A one off occurrence I believe having both days in one)
-8th Decemer notification of successful assessment.
-5th January 757 Sim.
-13th January notification of successful sim - entered into the hold pool.
-26th January given a start date to meet my notice period for my current employer.
Applied for LH DEP
-25th November application.
-27th November notification of successful application.
-7th December assessment day 1+2 (A one off occurrence I believe having both days in one)
-8th Decemer notification of successful assessment.
-5th January 757 Sim.
-13th January notification of successful sim - entered into the hold pool.
-26th January given a start date to meet my notice period for my current employer.
Applied for LH DEP
That was very fast!!
I applied 6 day ago on SH fleet.... finger crossed!
Regards!
Join Date: Oct 2013
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Hi
Does anyone have any info on the new recruitment process and verbal reasoning? Thanks
Copy of email below.
The intention is that we would request you to sit the new Verbal Reasoning test combined with our interview and group exercise element of selection. All other parts of your testing are currently valid.
Does anyone have any info on the new recruitment process and verbal reasoning? Thanks
Copy of email below.
The intention is that we would request you to sit the new Verbal Reasoning test combined with our interview and group exercise element of selection. All other parts of your testing are currently valid.
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Why do you say that? Did they specially say you failed due to that?
The 10 mins time for you to get used to the Sim is totally unassessed. You are not secretly being monitored at this point. BA is such a large and prominent employer in this industry and is so paranoid about bad press, that all recruitment follows a strict well defined framework. This ensures no allegations of discrimination of any sort.
The same also applies for internal applications which are as long winded and laborious as external applications.
The same also applies for internal applications which are as long winded and laborious as external applications.
I felt the sim process was very open, and the radar circuit was unassessed. However, given that the assessor was in all likelihood giving you handling feedback during and after your circuit, I believe that your ability to incorporate that feedback into your assessment sectors WAS assessed given that trainability was one of the three key areas I was told were under assessment.
I was pleased to get that far at my first ever attempt, and from what I hear, it's quite rare to get that far, let alone get a job offer at the first go, so I've just got to take it on the chin and try again when I can.
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When I did the test they used this I found on the website
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ps...SQGz-Au-iWM%3A
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ps...SQGz-Au-iWM%3A
