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Old 8th Jan 2016, 21:01
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Well said Yeoman. Happy New Year matey!
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Well done yeoman, good stuff.

What's the news for commands in the future? New aircraft? Do we aye a retirement bulge coming up, any numbers/year?

For what it's worth I ve had more time out of the company on time off through approved schemes/detachments than time in the company.

It's been fantastic!

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Old 10th Jan 2016, 17:59
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Originally Posted by Pin Head
Well done yeoman, good stuff.

What's the news for commands in the future? New aircraft? Do we aye a retirement bulge coming up, any numbers/year?

For what it's worth I ve had more time out of the company on time off through approved schemes/detachments than time in the company.

It's been fantastic!
Commands filled up to summer 2017 apparently with a steady 15-20 thereafter based on current fleet plans and retirement projections. Having said that, no one envisaged 50 upgrades this year so who knows... the future looks bright either way.

He says... cue 2016 recession....
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Old 12th Jan 2016, 15:49
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Sorry if my post was immoderate but it seems to have struck a chord with some. They of course work for TOM and therefore know what's what and have the perfect excuse to have a moan and to have a moan at me as a rep.

I'm sick of dropping in here from time to time to post what I hope is useful info only to find a bunch of people who presumably lessen the pain of their own lot by finding fault in the lot of others.

Simply put, I've yet to see any of them answer my question and several thousand qualified applicants applied for the latest round of recruitment. To answer In The Clouds' question, yes, all 60 places were filled even after some changed their minds and withdrew.

For that reason I'd be reasonably comfortable in saying the company will now have to reappraise their remuneration offer to continue to attract the talent, a point made clearly by Matey who is of course another chap who has actually sat in a room with a TOM manager or ten and had it from the horse's mouth rather than a mate of a guy who once got a peck on the cheek from the mum of a temp Hosite who last worked for us in 1972.

As for promotions, yes a great result this year after some serious discussions and I'm hopeful we might be able to jemmie a few more. There is a retirement bulge of sorts, high teens in numbers IIRC for the next few years. The early retirement scheme went better than anyone hoped and is a win / win so hopefully we'll revisit that soon.

So, as I said, plenty wrong in the company but show me a company that isn't bearing down on costs at every turn. More importantly, there's a lot more going right and looking good for more to come. To those who want to work for a company that treats you like a God, pays you whatever you ask, asks nothing in return and Bollox to the shareholders and / or owners, I wish you the very best in your search. For everyone else there's a slack handful of not bad employers out there. IMHO, TOM is one, warts and all.
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Old 12th Jan 2016, 15:59
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Shame all Nigel's don't live on the same planet as you. Grass is always green and in my humble view TOM is up there. The only down side I can think of is Luton - is there such a thing as a decent hotel there yet...
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Old 12th Jan 2016, 16:05
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Sorry Pin, I missed one of your questions. New aircraft is the fleet rollover to the Max and additional 787-9s. In terms of airframe numbers it's +1 and a bit due to them moving around the Group. Pilot numbers will be up IMHO as the 787 starts to really spread its wings and start long runs with a resultant need for more pilots per airframe, longer rotations, 3 crew ops etc.

SH is less certain but history has shown that TUI is big enough yet agile enough to shift emphasis pretty quickly if needed. Spain was hurting badly with the rise of Turkey and Egypt, IMHO we'll see a bit of a rebalancing what with very recent events.

The Nordic LH operation is also blending nicely with new routes opening there with us operating Vietnam sectors from March as well as the current KBV and HKT etc. We're also doing a fair bit of their Caribbean. Some of their pilots have been integrated into our operation for this reason. Flexibility here is also paying dividends after the political pissing contest between Russia and Sweden, the 787 has the legs to go the long way round avoiding Russian airspace, the 767 doesn't so 78s have been switched out to Nordic and 76s to the Caribbean.

Canada is still a viable operation again cooperation and flexibility paying off as we have UK and Belgian airframes and crews out there which justifies extra airframes in the UK in summer. Important point here is that the pilots are a secondary consideration in terms of airframe numbers; if you can get work for the airframes year round you get the pilots. Have a squint round MAN at the number of UK airframes parked up. Now look at the paint jobs; not much blue.

Enough. I'm even boring myself!
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Old 12th Jan 2016, 16:10
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Twiglet, no. No such thing as a decent hotel in LTN. You don't have to go there unless you've been bad. Most guys do a two day induction there never to return again. Even ferry flights usually involve a fast car out as soon as you've dumped the aircraft at the hangar.

Oh, add that to the list. Generally OK hotac (some shockers down route, true enough but working on that). Decent surface travel, all paid for. Long Haul into a UK base other than your base is straight into a hotel rather than into the rush hour M25 in Stinky Steve's Minicab.
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Old 12th Jan 2016, 17:11
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Any hint from the top about additional 8 bases?
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Old 15th Jan 2016, 13:21
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None. That doesn't mean anything though, only I've not heard. 8 would be pretty hard in the UK as most are already covered.

This leaves 2 options:

1. You or someone else is on a wind up mission, it's Rumour Network after all!
2. This has been conflated with a possible closer intergration with Nordic treating their bases as an extension of the UK? Pretty wild but it makes sense to my mind anyway.
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Old 15th Jan 2016, 20:39
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No wind up at all. Just a curious bidder after seeing the S17 results showing more RHS leaving the fleet than bidders going on, wondering if the people willing to commute has dried up.
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Old 15th Jan 2016, 21:15
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Sorry, you lost me, if people bidding out why 8 new bases??? I've missed what you have meant.
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Old 15th Jan 2016, 23:07
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No problem at all.

My own curiosity was trying to seek if the picture surrounding the 787 crewing/basing is complete for S17 based on the bid results.

More RHS are off the fleet purely for command, the bid stopped at PPY pilots. Less FOs on the 787 as a result of the latest bid results.

I'm not a fan of commuting so bidding onto the 8 at the big two bases wouldn't be long term for me, so always hopeful that further bases may pop up in the future for the fleet. Given the fleet size and its rotations, I don't think it's that far fetched. I was curious if the company is struggling to get bidders onto it at the big two.
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Old 16th Jan 2016, 06:13
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Oh ok the 78 bases not '8' new bases.
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Old 16th Jan 2016, 10:14
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I don't think there's a shortage of bidders for the 787 at LGW/MAN, the problem is that most if not all of them are PPY. Will be interesting to see what the future holds for PPY with respect to the pay deal to be announced in the next couple of weeks.
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Old 16th Jan 2016, 19:09
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As somebody who wants to join the company, I just can't justify the 7k for the OCC on top of part time. If they can remove one of those then sign me up! Seems like a nice place to be. Looking forward to seeing what this new pay deal has to offer.
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Old 16th Jan 2016, 21:07
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The 7k OCC is a p*ss take and I suspect it's an issue that has been discussed recently at high levels because it clearly prevents people from applying who may be suitable for the job. I thought long and hard about the issue when I joined and it still grates on me today, especially when they have the cheek to type freeze me as well. When this policy came in, the supply of pilots outstripped demand. The reverse may now be true so perhaps this will change, who knows.
If you delay your application by a year or two in the hope that the 7k reduction will disappear it will only bite you in the arse when it comes to bidding for other fleets/bases or command, as others in front of you get what you want before you. There is lots of movement and recruitment at the moment so if you want to join you may as well be as high up the seniority list as you can get. It's a decent place to be at the moment and I would highly recommend it.
As others have suggested those with the long term view have joined the business and not looked back. I don't think the ongoing pay deal will address the PPY issue but hopefully it will sort out the pension debacle.
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Thanks for the info, you have a good point on seniority. Unfortunately, my reasons are financial, the first year would be very uncomfortable. I realise it's short sighted, but being long sighted doesn't pay the mortgage or support home life for the next 12 months!

Good luck to all.
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Could someone let me know what aircraft use for the sim assessment and if possible where it is based out of. Also what is the profile?


Thanks,
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Old 27th Jan 2016, 22:56
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Well at a guess they'll want it to be realistic. So it'll be a 73. It will also be scheduled for 3 in the morning with a detail involving some badly run hellhole nestled somewhere between the Taurus mountains and a line of those 'dodgy looking clouds'. No doubt you'll be vectored into some granite too.

I jest. Thomson is a great company. Good luck!
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Old 2nd Feb 2016, 19:08
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Maxbrake, I believe it will be a cold day in hell before the guys hired last year receive the offer of full time contracts, before the 5 year mandatory point unless they challenge it.
I was interested to read that those who joined last year have now been made full time and those joining this year will stay full time until May 17 at the earliest.
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