BA Direct Entry Pilot.
Join Date: May 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 706
If you have ever sat in an A320 flightdeck, maybe to have your photo taken with the captain, please call BA recruitment directly.
We would also love to hear from people who may have a few widebody aircraft lying around that they aren’t using this summer.
Preferably with engines that won’t shake themselves to bits mid Atlantic.
And bunks.
We would also love to hear from people who may have a few widebody aircraft lying around that they aren’t using this summer.
Preferably with engines that won’t shake themselves to bits mid Atlantic.
And bunks.
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: UK
Posts: 1,385
Originally Posted by RexBanner
Good luck getting guys to start tomorrow with Procius so amateurishly running the airside pass security referencing. 6 weeks would be ambitious to be frank.
His old pass ended up expiring and had to go around on an escorted pass for a few weeks. Amateurish.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: LONDON
Posts: 10
I suspect the HP is now completely empty, including Non TR. I declined my offer a few weeks back and was told 260 pilots were needed after a radical shift in the projected requirement that flew in the face of what was briefed to the pool. They were filling courses on 77/78/74 into July.
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Button Moon
Posts: 305
Originally Posted by olster
I agree, Procius are useless.
I first encountered them many years ago when I was doing my CPL......they were put in charge of sorting references for an airside pass for me to be a baggage handler. Painful!!!! Nearly gave up and went back to being skint!
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Germany
Posts: 2,073
Originally Posted by Jwscud
Just for info, around 110 DEPs taken on so far this year, with around 70 going to the Boeing long haul fleets. No info at the moment on how many more planned.
https://jobs.ba.com/jobs/vacancy/dir...9/description/
Last edited by VinRouge; 26th Apr 2018 at 20:57.
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: UK
Posts: 595
WW has always said Brexit will have limited effect on IAG. He's never (as far as I am aware) specifically said how he thinks it will alter BA's bottom line, but BA currently provides the vast majority of IAG's profits, so he either expects this to continue or that the other airlines within the group will take over. There are many who believe Brexit will result in a huge hit to BA's premium customer base, but that all depends on what Brexit actually means. Personally, I think the negotiations will continue for such a lengthy period of time with no real direction, that people will just get bored of it all and businesses will either bumble along without any innovative plans for the future, or they will leave the UK and get on with growing.
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wherever it is this month
Posts: 1,275
Can anyone advise on the thinking behind requiring a type rating (any) and 500hrs for the latest round, when the expense of a TR course would be needed for most recruits anyway? Could it be that ‘fresh’ fATPL holders typically fail more TR courses or line training, or is it about speeding up line training and reducing the need for training captains?
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Botswana
Posts: 743
As far as I understand it, the type rating requirement covers the candidate for ZFT training which I suppose is where BA are coming from. As far as the recruitment process goes (for those that have moaned about it), I was as fierce a critic of this as any having failed the computer aptitude tests twice. However I discovered on the third attempt at it that they just required some preparation and work (indeed that goes for the whole process). Any commercial pilot worth a grain of salt can pass them given the effort and application, I know because I’m living proof. So if you really want to work for BA then you might have to work for it, nothing wrong with that.
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wherever it is this month
Posts: 1,275
Thanks Rex. I hadn’t thought of the ZFT angle. Where does the TR requirement leave military pilots with >500hrs ME who would otherwise be eligible for ZFT though? Seems to exclude them somewhat arbitrarily.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Uk
Age: 38
Posts: 403
Easy street. If you're a Service Pilot in the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Royal Marines or Army Air Corps, you can apply via our Managed Path – Direct Entry Pilot Scheme (lifted from the experienced pilots recruitment page) I am not sure this is currently active for the current recruitment as it does specify a type rating. Under the requirements it just says a type rating and 500 flying hours. It does not specify what type rating as it’s open recruitment to both SH and LH and the hours do not state on type. I would assume they would love a load of type rated pilots with hours for DEP money and a minimum training footprint. However they are probably relatively few in number. I would say you need to get in contact with LC or LA or any other inside contact you have to ask some questions. I do fly with a good number of relatively recent ex military recruits.
