European Cargo
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From: Lambourne
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Yep a real shame. 6 years ago they were the only airline recruiting during Covid and helped a lot of guys and girls, mainly Virgin and Air Tanker keep the mortgage ticking over rather than driving for Tesco for 60 hours a week to cover half their mortgage. A lot of great people there who will need our collective support right now
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From: U.K.
Yep a real shame. 6 years ago they were the only airline recruiting during Covid and helped a lot of guys and girls, mainly Virgin and Air Tanker keep the mortgage ticking over rather than driving for Tesco for 60 hours a week to cover half their mortgage. A lot of great people there who will need our collective support right now
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From: UK
Joined: Jan 2013
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With European Cargo, I guess the flying became unaffordable given lack of fuel hedging and/or fuel not paid for by the client?
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From: SW1A 2AA
I think one of the problems was the aircraft configuration. Loading stuff through passenger doors is time consuming and restricts what you can carry.
I suppose we will now see the aircraft boxed in with a bunch of vehicles before they are flown out or scrapped at BOH. The A340 was a great looking machine, shame to see the numbers dwindling. As for the staff, most of us have suffered redundancies at one point or another. The jobs market is pretty buoyant and I'm sure they will get picked up quickly.
I suppose we will now see the aircraft boxed in with a bunch of vehicles before they are flown out or scrapped at BOH. The A340 was a great looking machine, shame to see the numbers dwindling. As for the staff, most of us have suffered redundancies at one point or another. The jobs market is pretty buoyant and I'm sure they will get picked up quickly.
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From: U.K.
And about half of them (The Brits anyway) resigned within the year due to the disgraceful employment practices of the agency that hired them and the bully boys in the training department, but we digress...
With European Cargo, I guess the flying became unaffordable given lack of fuel hedging and/or fuel not paid for by the client?
With European Cargo, I guess the flying became unaffordable given lack of fuel hedging and/or fuel not paid for by the client?
It should've been quite obvious to anyone that once the a return of a full long-haul network of airlines flying internationally returned, putting cargo into the belly of a BA 777 etc would've been cheaper than having to fly an A340 and the finances behind operating a 340 in competition with the LH carriers and DHL was probably quite tough.
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From: Lambourne
