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Old 23rd March 2016 | 15:37
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Yes to the first (I think), an overwhelming no to the second.
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Old 28th March 2016 | 16:31
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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!
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Old 28th March 2016 | 19:25
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LGW or LHR base?
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Old 28th March 2016 | 19:44
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Ah, of course I forgot something... LHR base please, if possible?
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Old 29th March 2016 | 23:01
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Hi all,
do you know what is,usually, the waiting time to get a reply after having applied as DEP?
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Old 30th March 2016 | 06:15
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Originally Posted by angelo26
Hi all,
do you know what is,usually, the waiting time to get a reply after having applied as DEP?
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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
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Old 30th March 2016 | 10:39
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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
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Old 31st March 2016 | 07:23
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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?
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Old 31st March 2016 | 07:53
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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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Old 31st March 2016 | 12:48
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From: santiago
Originally Posted by jimboy473
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
Thank you very much Jimboy473,
That was very fast!!
I applied 6 day ago on SH fleet.... finger crossed!

Regards!
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Old 31st March 2016 | 14:10
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From: Uk
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.
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Old 2nd April 2016 | 22:08
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'I applied 6 day ago on SH fleet.... finger crossed!'

I hope you double-checked your written offering!
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Old 3rd April 2016 | 07:47
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From: On Parole!
How long can you delay going to interview before the application is scrapped?
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Old 4th April 2016 | 23:11
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Why do you say that? Did they specially say you failed due to that?
It was one of the items they brought up in my feedback.

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.
As above, one of the items discussed as a fail point in my feedback occurred during the 10 min unassessed practice, if what you say were entirely true, then surely it shouldn't have been brought up?

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.
Yes he did give feed back after the circuit was over, and I did not make the same mistake again, which is why I was surprised it was brought up as a fail item during the feedback call.

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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Old 6th April 2016 | 16:52
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Can anyone confirm whether the flight management scenario gives instructions to descend in feet per minute or feet per mile?

Many thanks,
UK
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Old 6th April 2016 | 18:09
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From: Close to minimums
Feet per nautical mile
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Old 6th April 2016 | 18:39
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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
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Old 8th April 2016 | 15:52
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From: Reading
Any guys on here entered the hold pool recently and waiting for an offer....?
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Old 9th April 2016 | 14:03
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From: UK
Anyone been emailed to come back within the 12 months had a reply yet?
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Old 9th April 2016 | 18:57
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Question regarding CAP,

Sorry, after trawling through dozens of pages, I havent found a clear answer on this.

But if you don't make CAP, what happens?
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