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Old 23rd Jul 2020, 10:35
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to be honest now they will have plenty of candidates... let’s see in a few months.
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Old 23rd Jul 2020, 11:32
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Wizzair has always had, for every base in the network, a crew car service. There are pick up points all over the city for reports before 7am and checkouts after 22pm. It is usually no big deal to arrange pickup points close to the most popular areas for crew accomodation.

They do that not because they are kind, but because most of the cabin crew cannot afford a car on that salary, and public transportation is not always provided at those times to the airport.
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Old 28th Jul 2020, 00:58
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Pretty much sums up everything since April. Sad story. Enjoyed my time there, good training and met some lovely people, but now I'd rather be out of a job than working for them.

https://www-aerotime-aero.cdn.amppro...riticism?v=amp
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Old 28th Jul 2020, 08:46
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A sad and sobering read. But I guess that they can afford it with 4000 pilots applying for however many jobs there will be in the coming months.

In the meantime, what sort of contracts are offered to those who are being hired/re-hired now? Local ones only? Or will they revive the Confair option?
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Old 28th Jul 2020, 09:09
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Only local contracts with significantly worse t&c-s compared to pre-covid19.

Pilots are afraid to call sick, to fill a fatigue report, etc. Everyone is watching their own back, making sure that they won't say something which may affect their position. Pilots are being watched. Not good in the long run regarding safety I'm afraid.
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Old 28th Jul 2020, 09:31
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First, they reacieved around 3000 applications. More than 1000 are non rated cadets. For the rest I know people that applied just to cover their backs in case of being laid off in their companies but they don’t have intention to go for any Assestment.
Ok, there is people unemployed in Europe for sure but not too many birds on the air like someone tried to show here.
Direct Type Rated Captains applications around 600, included people fired...
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Old 28th Jul 2020, 09:44
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Thank you for this interesting insight. For sure, there are loads of non-rated applicants, as you rightly mentioned. Not many places even accept applications from newbies these days, so no wonder. But perhaps the number of those will be limited to however many courses have already been paid to the ATOs before corona and cannot be refunded now?

As for Captains - 600 people for maybe 150 vacancies isn't too competitive indeed. 4 applicants per one place is quite a normal ratio for major companies even in far better days. Possibly even less if many are applying purely as a backup.
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Old 28th Jul 2020, 11:01
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Plus many who go through the application process, and then walk away when they get offered a take-it-or-leave it sketchy base on a local contract...

You’d have thought the 100 or so “contractors” they got rid of would have first dibs on any spots available. Considering they were only let go due to being expensive, and providing they are willing to accept any base and a local contract. The other hundred or so “undesirables” were dismissed for a reason, so I can’t see them being taken back on.

There must be a fair few folk who had their March to June start dates postponed too. I know people who were in the middle of TRs which were postponed, yet to resume.

All this makes me think that assessments will be very lucky to be had before Christmas.
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Old 28th Jul 2020, 11:33
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Also, there are probably people who got the green light for a type rating in spring 2020, but never started one. I wouldn't expect their assessment outcome to be nullified since the delay in their training will likely be within 6 months (which is more or less within normal with many companies), but considering that even people who spent years working for the company were still made to do the full assessment to rejoin 3 months after redundancy - who knows...
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Old 28th Jul 2020, 12:35
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Cost...

Assessments cost time, effort and money. Unless the EasyJet / Ryanair style “pay to apply” rears it’s ugly head again...
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Old 29th Jul 2020, 06:29
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And a new point of notice - a new base change policy was published recently, and new joiners will not be able to apply for a base change for 24 months after release. In the past you could go anywhere and wait a few months until a position opens somewhere better, now it's 2 years being stuck wherever they offer initially. Be aware of that when applying.
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Old 29th Jul 2020, 06:50
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Another anti human policy. EasyJet did/still do this. Two people at two different bases with a mutual swap requirement...sorry no can do. They think they save money with such policies but at the end of the day the pilots get fed up and leave thereby costing the company more to replace/train. The amount of false economy at low cost airlines is staggering. Penny wise, pound foolish.
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Old 29th Jul 2020, 07:31
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With this practice in mind, is there at least any guarantee that commuting roster stability will be regained from October, as promised? Because being on random roster somewhere random might easily result in not being able to go home for months on end. Also, is the 2-year base freeze applicable only to base change or has the training bond for the conversion training also been extended by a year?
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Old 30th Jul 2020, 09:29
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I'm hearing that EASA is now becoming the competent authority of Wizz air, instead of the Hungarian CAA. Can anyone confirm or deny this? If it is true, there must be quite a substantial reason for it.
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Old 31st Jul 2020, 08:00
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as far as I understand EASA Always regulates company but the main institution is the local authorities, so do not expect great things from EASA in order to control fatigue levels and such things...
in the other hand they are struggling crews, opening bases, bringing aircrafts... with 265 pilots less (1/4) so this is a thin line... people will start to call sick, fatigue... also for Western Europe pilots do not have a sustainable roster to come and see their families is hard psicologically...
so all this factors make unsafe for a pilot to be fresh and fit to fly
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Old 31st Jul 2020, 08:12
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yes I have colleagues flying to the limit as well on random roster...
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Old 1st Aug 2020, 16:22
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https://www.pilotjobsnetwork.com/jobs/Wizz_Air

I cannot guarantee for the credibility of this, but seems like the current round of recruitment is for start dates in 2021. Some rather unpopular bases are offered to new joiners - and, as previously mentioned, this is now complimented with a 24-month base transfer freeze. Reportedly, there is a backlog of base transfer requests even among those who joined pre-COVID, so this was an easy way to cull the number of said requests. Roster instability and lack of commutable patterns seem to continue.
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Old 2nd Aug 2020, 06:16
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Sounds about right, at least based on official information from management (but as we know that can always change).
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Old 2nd Aug 2020, 07:45
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What bases are they offering in Balkans? Any chance for LTN in western Europe?
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Old 2nd Aug 2020, 08:04
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From what I know, Luton already has a long waiting list, so you can forget about it anytime soon. The same goes for Vienna, Budapest, Warsaw. Larnaca and Dortmund were also deemed attractive by enough senior pilots, so not a chance for a new hire to go there. On the Balkans the bases which seem to be sought after the most by the locals are Belgrade, Sofia and Bucharest. So, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect Skopje, Tuzla, Tirana, Varna, Craiova, Iasi, Bacau, Chisinau.
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