BA Direct Entry Pilot.

[Retrojet]

Was that expected?

[Retrojet]

Anyone know if any A320 LGW or LHR offers have been given yet?

[EF1S]

Yes they have. LGW.

[Retrojet]

Great news....any idea how many?

[RHINO]

Isn't it funny how PPRUNE is the last to know what is really going on

[VJW]

I presume the 320 offers mentioned above were to FPP cadets and not DEP.

[JulietSierra6]

There have been DEP offers as well as FPP’s onto the Airbus

[bex88]

I know people in low places and dark corners but PPrune seems to know before me and most of the time before BA too.

[RHINO]

Bex88

The point I was making is that the offers etc had been out for a number of weeks but that those in the know had elected to keep stum. PPRUNE is not the font of all things aviation.

[Retrojet]

Does anyone know how many a320 offers went out.....any other offers made?

[wiggy]

As was mentioned by others a few posts back, defo a handful of offers for the triple, and I think a few for the 744.

[no sponsor]

As someone on the 744 in BA, we're definitely short of FOs...loads of uncovered work and the caps are high!

[Jumbo2]

As someone on the 320 in BA, we're definitely short of FOs...loads of uncovered work and the caps are high (5 hours above normal cap)!

60+ are leaving the fleet in the first quarter heading to long haul fleets and are in training at the moment.

[student88]

FOs on long term sick, FOs dossing about giving power point presentations on JSS whilst the rest of us work our asses off, the CAPs will always be high.

[bex88]

Student88 😂 the JSS bit...love it so true

[SinBin]

One in particular!

[followthegreens]

With a guess of around 600 FOs SH at LHR, a reduction of 7 FOs for JSS training brings a CAP of 90 hours to 91 hours. I can see why you're working a lot harder. Poor you!

[wiggy]

I’ll admit to sometimes wondering about some of the reps time, but before chucking brickbats I suppose someone has to ask: have those doing the JSS training been pulled off line to do so or are they just doing the “job” in their normal BALPA days but are visible for once.

FWIW there’s at least one Longhaul C status list where CAP is well above normal and I somehow doubt that is down to individuals getting involved in JSS training.....

Basically everybody on a fleet with working engines seems to be pretty busy....

[NLP]

Actually the rosters for March are pretty . CAP is 93:11 for FO's on the Airbus. Out of 307 trip lines only 11 of them will be sufficient for me to reach CAP. If this is March, what's the summer going to look like.

Would be great to see new guys coming in.

Obviously it's not the 7(?) guys out of the 479 FO's leading to the high CAP. It's the many people being promoted to LH or Captain (fantastic news btw). If I would run the show I would start at the bottom and make sure we have enough FO's on the Airbus before people leave the fleet, but I guess the beancounters don't want to have 10 FO's too many on a fleet...

Edit: Reading Wiggy's post, everyone seems to be working hard. Hope they get the recruitment machine up and running to the maximum.

[wiggy]

If I would run the show I would start at the bottom and make sure we have enough FO's on the Airbus before people leave the fleet,

Err....right, nice in theory, ideal world etc, but be very careful with that thought.