Wizzair

[rp001]

Originally Posted by samatyranin

Well. Please dont tell us stories about 'current market'. Wizz Air has their orders for hundreds of new aircrafts. And they went with a special job offer for all pilots from Air Italy. Yes - they are experienced (even if not type rated for airbus) but wizz still goes on their Wizz Air Pilot Academy so they are looking for those who are not experienced aswell.

Pilot Academy is one thing, because they earn money from those that go to that academy.
If you are non type rated they do not get any money from you, except if you break the bond.
The current market is in tha shape that there is enough pilots with more than 300h and even type rated so it is obvious that they will take someone who knows how to fly airbus and they do not need to train him and they can put him on a right seat asap.
I is true that they have 100+ orders for new buses but i guess we will have to wait for ntr cadet to open again... not to mention UPRT ****...

[BarryMG]

Originally Posted by rp001

Pilot Academy is one thing, because they earn money from those that go to that academy.
If you are non type rated they do not get any money from you, except if you break the bond.
The current market is in tha shape that there is enough pilots with more than 300h and even type rated so it is obvious that they will take someone who knows how to fly airbus and they do not need to train him and they can put him on a right seat asap.
I is true that they have 100+ orders for new buses but i guess we will have to wait for ntr cadet to open again... not to mention UPRT ****...

The problem is with training capacity - there is just not enough.

[rp001]

Originally Posted by BarryMG

The problem is with training capacity - there is just not enough.

If that is a problem they should at least inform us if we are in the pool or not...

[Rottweiler22]

Originally Posted by rp001

If that is a problem they should at least inform us if we are in the pool or not...

I often think that setting up hold pools and having people in them for an excessive period of time is counterproductive. The longer people are in it, the more likely they are to have found other jobs.

So the airline’s planning for the input of new pilots becomes much more complicated, especially when a large number of them may not take a start date when they finally get offered.

Personally, I think they’re much better planning and recruiting for the next 3-4 months at a time. Which sounds like what they’re doing. As BarryMG says, training capacity is probably full until the summer, so they’ll prioritise those with experience.

[rp001]

The problem that I see is that we do not get any info weather the recruiting is on or not. If you send email to wizz they just do not reply..., and then we do not know where we are....

[Rottweiler22]

Originally Posted by rp001

The problem that I see is that we do not get any info weather the recruiting is on or not. If you send email to wizz they just do not reply..., and then we do not know where we are....

Sadly, this is the aviation world we live in. Never any guarantees. Not even guaranteed a response to an application. I know the pain, especially after you’ve spent so much time doing applications. My advice is don’t hold your breath and don’t keep refreshing your emails. I’ve seen people publicly reduced to tears when they didn’t get the assessment result they were expecting. Fire and forget, and move on. They will probably contact you back when you least expect it.

[Banana Joe]

It certainly is on, at least for NTR cadets. A friend got in less than two weeks ago.

[rp001]

Originally Posted by Banana Joe

It certainly is on, at least for NTR cadets. A friend got in less than two weeks ago.

And when did this friend applied to NTR

[Banana Joe]

He first applied last May and didn't get the job back then but they told him to apply again after 6 months at least and he did again all the assessment in January.

[flyingmeatball]

Anyone doing the assessment 9-10 of March?

[rp001]

Nope I wasnt invited jet

[Stick_pusher]

Originally Posted by flyingmeatball

Anyone doing the assessment 9-10 of March?

Cadet NTR?
When did you apply please?

[flyingmeatball]

FO NTR with some jet experience, I sent my stuff to Wizz last week so it was a fast turnaround. Good luck

[Stick_pusher]

Good luck my friend. NTR cadet still waiting more than two months for reply...

[Stick_pusher]

Age limits for cadets

Does anyone knows, or guessing, if there is an age limit from which Wizz doesn't call cadets anymore for an assessment?
I know someone that mentioned that from the age of 35 they usually don't unless it's an extremely tough period.
Any hints?

[flyhare]

Does anybody know what is the FO payment scheme maybe?

[samatyranin]

So you say 12-19€ per sector. I bet that there are many different bases where pilots tend to do more 4 sector days than 2 sector ones. But any averages on how many sectors monthly?

[flyingmeatball]

I found this on PPJN Country multipliers (applicable to base§or pay) in force to balance different tax rates and/or cost of living: UK: 1.5 Romania: 1.45 Macedonia: 1.3 Austria: 1.25 Latvia: 1.2 Georgia, Moldova: 1.1 Poland: 1.05 Other countries and all service providers: 1.0 Bulgaria (only applied to variable elements): 0.9

Am I correct when I think that you take you monthly salary lets say 2.800 EUR times 1.5 for UK base? As an example

[Racetothebottom]

Swiss tax outside uk I think

[flyingmeatball]

Yeah its a bit strange, I guess the place to be is Macedonia it cheep as **** but you still have a factor of 1.3