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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....
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.
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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
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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.
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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!!
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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?
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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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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?
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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
BA could have had the pick of over four hundred well trained annd highly experienced Airbus pilots if they had been quicker off the mark, but they failed to engage this talent , unlike Virgin who could see the quality of what was available.
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There are so many things about that comment which are laughable! Virgin needed pilots because their 787s have no engines and the timing of Monarch’s demise was fortunate, nothing to do with the extreme talent on offer. Let’s hope Virgin remain so impressed when those 787s come back on line!