BA Direct Entry Pilot.
Joined: Dec 2016
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From: UK
Is it really a no brainer though? Yes the finances in the LHS at Easy are wonderful, but if cash was the only consideration then one would also be better off staying put in the LHS at RYR.
I think you'd find a few differences in lifestyle between an Easy skipper and a 13 year BA FO, mainly in favour of the latter... the big shiny salary isn't necessarily always as important as having the control over your life that you seemingly do at BA. Surely a few years slumming it at bottom seniority is worth it in the long run?
I think you'd find a few differences in lifestyle between an Easy skipper and a 13 year BA FO, mainly in favour of the latter... the big shiny salary isn't necessarily always as important as having the control over your life that you seemingly do at BA. Surely a few years slumming it at bottom seniority is worth it in the long run?
Joined: Apr 2002
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From: UK
One word of caution:
After 5 years at EasyJet I really needed part time as there was no way I could keep it up full time.
So those figures only work if you manage to do 13 years full time at EZY. I’m now on year 13 in BA and nowhere near feeling I need part time. Of course it would be nice but that’s another story altogether....
After 5 years at EasyJet I really needed part time as there was no way I could keep it up full time.
So those figures only work if you manage to do 13 years full time at EZY. I’m now on year 13 in BA and nowhere near feeling I need part time. Of course it would be nice but that’s another story altogether....
Joined: Oct 2010
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From: UK
Sorry if I’ve caused a thread drift. All I meant to imply was whoever were to call me first out their pool wins. Both are good jobs but I can’t turn down one waiting for the other, especially when the other has kept me waiting well over a year and still suggests a call isn’t coming this year.
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: York
I’m genuinely intrigued.
When you say “easiest”, what do you mean?
Clearly you can’t mean time in uniform? So do you mean easiest as far as the colleagues you work with? The base you fly from? The destinations you serve? Rostering agreement? Stability? Opportunity?
What is it that’s ‘easier’?
Thanks
When you say “easiest”, what do you mean?
Clearly you can’t mean time in uniform? So do you mean easiest as far as the colleagues you work with? The base you fly from? The destinations you serve? Rostering agreement? Stability? Opportunity?
What is it that’s ‘easier’?
Thanks
Joined: Feb 2018
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From: London
Flying 20% less than I used to, excellent colleagues (same at EZY to be fair), decent number of weekends off even at the bottom, days are way shorter, control over the type of flying that suits you (earlies, lates, daytrips, tours etc), rock solid roster stability, weeks of leave in school holidays, helpful ground team that gives you compassionate / dependent leave.
Downsides are the company is enormous so can be difficult to feel at home when you don’t recognise anybody on a 2 day your with 5 different crew. Slighty awkward aircraft changes with 2 hour turns but there’s virtually always possibility for coffee and a decent meal in T5 that’s not crew food.
There’s a thread in the airline of course that SH is terrible and exhausting but it’s way better than the grind of long term low cost flying in my experience. LHR night jet ban is great!
Could all change at the bottom with JSS but I’m cautiously optimistic.
Downsides are the company is enormous so can be difficult to feel at home when you don’t recognise anybody on a 2 day your with 5 different crew. Slighty awkward aircraft changes with 2 hour turns but there’s virtually always possibility for coffee and a decent meal in T5 that’s not crew food.
There’s a thread in the airline of course that SH is terrible and exhausting but it’s way better than the grind of long term low cost flying in my experience. LHR night jet ban is great!
Could all change at the bottom with JSS but I’m cautiously optimistic.
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: UK
FWIW, non type rated in the pool for a long time, received and accepted the offer for A320 LHR. Happy to be in and settle in for the long road ahead. Most definitely a step up from my current regional gig!!
Joined: Apr 2013
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From: London
I've been following this thread for a while. Can anyone on 'the inside' confirm my inference that we're likely to see some non-Airbus rated recruitment for LH (+ possibly SH) in the near future?
Last edited by clvf88; 6th February 2018 at 11:19.
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I think that might suggest so.
I'd have thought they'd recruit rated guys onto SH before non-rated though. So does this mean that there are very few A320-rated swimmers left?!
Would explain why they opened up the A320-rated recruitment page again.
I'd have thought they'd recruit rated guys onto SH before non-rated though. So does this mean that there are very few A320-rated swimmers left?!
Would explain why they opened up the A320-rated recruitment page again.
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From: Right of the Middle
There are definitely some 320 rated swimmers still in the pool... me, and I think FACOff and TimesReader both did their sims after me?
For reference I did mine mid Nov ‘16... anyone else?
For reference I did mine mid Nov ‘16... anyone else?
Joined: May 2011
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From: Monkey island
We are recruiting A320 guys and gals because we can't fly the schedule with the current pilots. We need them right now basically, so that is why we are opening for DEPs rated on the 320 so they can do a short course.
Came straight from the manpower manager
Came straight from the manpower manager