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From: Uk
The latest from the lady who is in charge of all manpower and it's on this weeks flight ops video. "No DEP recruitment for the rest of this year" but she emphasises that's the current plan and is subject to change depending on many factors. The DEP pool is ready for next year.
I know it's not exactly what people want to hear but hopefully it helps keep people sane.
I know it's not exactly what people want to hear but hopefully it helps keep people sane.
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From: Botswana
What I read into what was said Bex is that they won't be issuing any start dates to DEP's for the remainder of the year but those guys and girls in the pool will be first in line for jobs in 2018 (which is exactly what they have been told in recent updates). It's still entirely possible and/or probable that recruitment will open later in the year for the rest of the positions available in 2018.
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From: somewhere in the middle
Does anyone know when the internal bidding process opens / closes, and the results are published? I'd guess that'd be a good indication of when the hold pool starts to drain, and if DEP opens up again.
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From: Asia
How has the new rostering system and EASA FTL effected a possible new joiner LH? I assume EASA has effected commuters or is that still possible? A couple of years ago I met some Canadians commuting but how is that working out now?
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From: The Winchester
The new roster system isn't in yet, though it's fair to say Bidline "as is" isn't Bidline "as was."......
As far as EASA goes people do still travel in from Europe and elsewhere but given it is harder now to "back to back" LH trips roster construction/manipulation through either bidding and/or swapping can be a bit more difficult.
As far as EASA goes people do still travel in from Europe and elsewhere but given it is harder now to "back to back" LH trips roster construction/manipulation through either bidding and/or swapping can be a bit more difficult.
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From: The Winchester
I'll admit it is one of my pet peeves about BA "shorthand" - doesn't everybody at LHR "commute" 
??? , even if just from Windsor, Slough, Manchester, Edinburgh or beyond???.......I think the general loss of flexibility for everybody was a shame, but we are where we are....
??? , even if just from Windsor, Slough, Manchester, Edinburgh or beyond???.......I think the general loss of flexibility for everybody was a shame, but we are where we are....
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Yes, it's always tickled me that in BA-speak "Do you commute?" means "Do you travel to work using public air transport?"
I wonder what all those other poor souls on the motorway as I drive to work are doing?
In other news, there is about to be some internal movement generated by the releasing of some part-time positions which had been denied. This will create about 35 MPE places, not enough to translate into external recruitment. Next year and the year after, things will ramp up again.
The current market has made thing very difficult for the postings & promotions team, variable part time, unknown retirement levels, network changing their minds on routes. The only sure way you know you are on a new fleet, or have joined, is when you put the gear lever to 'up' for the first time on the aircraft....
I wonder what all those other poor souls on the motorway as I drive to work are doing?
In other news, there is about to be some internal movement generated by the releasing of some part-time positions which had been denied. This will create about 35 MPE places, not enough to translate into external recruitment. Next year and the year after, things will ramp up again.
The current market has made thing very difficult for the postings & promotions team, variable part time, unknown retirement levels, network changing their minds on routes. The only sure way you know you are on a new fleet, or have joined, is when you put the gear lever to 'up' for the first time on the aircraft....
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From: Botswana
2019 possibly but a recent conversation I was having with a member of the P&P team suggested 2018 may only be slightly less quiet than this year. I have to stress though that this is a rumour network after all and who knows? The only certainty is that all these plans change with the wind.