Do Jet2 require you to fund your type rating? Either way can someone detail the deal on TRs please?

Thanks in advance.

What about rostering? Days OnOff, etc, how likely to work days off...

So these positions are for pilots to be on line next Spring rather than this year then?

They must have ended up short because I had a call on a Thursday about 6 weeks go asking if I was able to start on the Monday, and could the agency put my details forward to Jet 2. Maybe they are having to go through the process of re-recruiting the summer only contractors for next year. Who knows. It will all come out in the wash!

People have already been taken on as a summer "top up", on short term contracts until Oct 31st. This latest recruitment seems more of a reaction to possible resignations than anything else. There is a lot of talk of the sandpit on the flightdeck.

If Jet2 are trying to beat the rush, they will have to be offering full time contracts and earlier rather than later starts. If not, surely there will be a lot of guys putting any potential job offer in their back pocket, and seeing what happens between now and next spring???

So, we're told Flightglobal ad is running with Flight International ad to run next month. First intake joining in October.;)
Jet2 have an arrangement with Oxford for ab-initios starting with us in January. (I guess they will being paying) Line trainers brace yourselves.:eek:
There are also plans to recruit from the RAF/Navy for next summer. Didn't see that one coming!:ooh:
And that's all we've been told folks.

Guys what about the Type Rating for DEPs? Is it payable by the pilot or a bond etc.?

Bond??? I once heard of this term, bond, a long long time ago. C'mon, man...cash up front!

They can f%*" off then, I'll stay where I am ;)

If they are after ex-Mil types next Summer, not confident they'll get that many if they don't go down the bond route rather than the TR...

In the past if you were joining without being type rated, you would be expected to join the Channex Type Rating Scheme.
In short you had to pay 20K for 737 or 17K for 757 upfront.:{
Jet2 would then divide your salary into 2 parts for 3 years - CTRS salary and Training cost repayment. The Training cost repayment part would be tax free. After 3 years both parts are combined to make full/final salary and taxed.:hmm:
As for mil types, I would think it depends how badly they want/need the job. Jet2 are pretty good at dangling the carrot.

Not sure whether the old CTRS deal would still apply. CTRS stood for CTC Type Rating Scheme, but CTC has been dumped and a deal done with Oxford.

Internal fleet transfers have been mentioned, but RE has allegedly told a few guys that these would be at the pilot's expense :eek: (so presumably zero takers on that one).

If we're after "rumours" I heard talk of 100 pilots required for next year. If that's even half true then something big must be on the horizon, "international recruitment" as they call it isn't going to account for that much attrition. Expanding East Mids? Glasgow? The mythical Southern base?

Oher rumours I have heard include cadet MPLs with a secondment to Eastern.

It's all hearsay and the company will continue to offer rubbish contracts (70%) until they are desperately short of crews. If they are hiring so many for next year then why have the guys/girls who have been working this summer on 70% not been offered anything more permanent? Because that is the future at Jet2 - work your arse off during the summer for 70% salary (6 days on, 2 off) and have 5 months off during the winter. Unless you are semi retired with no mortgage to pay why would you want this kind of deal?!

It looks like the future is to contintue to hire and promote people on part time deals, which means it is not a career, but mearly a stop gap.

As soon as other airlines start hiring then pilots are going to leave in droves and Jet2 are really going to struggle. This is probably why they are trying to build up a pool of people by advertising so early, striking a deal with Oxford and talking of recruiting military pilots. Maybe there are a lot of people already looking at the middle east and management have got worried? Who knows and quite frankly who cares? If you want a part time low paid job then look no further, if you want a career then look a lot, lot further!

So, after receiving an email from jet2 asking me to fill out an application on their website www.jet2.com/pilots from the 24 August, I go on the website to see that it still saying no more recruitment at this point in time, come back in september.

Maybe because its 0530 in the UK and im on the opposite side of the world right now.

I dont know :D

I tend to agree with Spikedog, a part-time job isn't a career. I wonder though if one can find any different with another UK airline at this point. The rewarding careers seem to be overseas, so it makes sense to look there rather than take a part-time job here and hope for better times ahead. Looking at some of the other threads there are some other opportunities in Europe and further of course. To each his/her own I suppose.

Where have you read this???? :confused:

Jobs.Jet2.com

Anyway I got the same email, so wondering when they will open the selection process...

Says come back in early september as they will then be recruiting for summer 2011

The website is open chpas. Last year's log in details still work. :D

Just gone in Jobs.Jet2.com and refreshed the page and came out and in again, and chose 'air crew' and all that and tried again and again, BUT:

Currently, vacancies for Cabin Crew/Aircrew are now closed but we would like to thank-you for your interest in Jet2.com. Please visit the website again in early September as we will be recruiting again for Summer 2011.
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