Anyone have the latest news on the requirement for B737 contract captains?

BBC Business News
 

From BBC Business News:

Budget airline Easyjet has seen profits almost triple on rising passenger numbers and cheaper fuel.
The carrier made profits of £154m in the 12 months to September, up from £55m a year earlier.
Passenger volumes rose 8% in the year to 49 million, helping to push its share of the European market up to 7.6% from 6.5% a year earlier. Fuel costs were down 9%.
The company also said it would pay its first dividend - but not until 2012.
Europe strategy
Easyjet is benefiting from the continuing migration of passengers on continental Europe away from national carriers towards budget airlines - a pattern already well established in its home market Britain.
"We see clear opportunities for Easyjet to continue to take market share as charter traffic continues to decline, as weaker short-haul carriers retrench or fail and as new infrastructure capacity comes on stream," said Easyjet's new chief executive, Carolyn McCall, commenting on the full-year results.
She expects low-cost carriers like her company to make further headway in France, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands and Portugal in the coming months, pushing budget airlines' share of these markets to around 50%.
In anticipation of this growth, the airline announced that it would buy another 24 planes by September 2013, representing a 12% increase in its fleet.

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Will we see improved T&C'S? ;)

Im glad I turned down the offer to pay £34K for TR and line training to fly as a contract pilot for them..... as this news would have rubbed salt in a very sore bank account.. Takes the piss.

Rant over.

mint

Well done boys, you paid for it.

The 150 hours I quoted is related to the self-sponsored ex-BMI cadets who have come to us following 150 hours line training at BMI. I cannot give you specific 'chapter and verse' on the company recruitment policy right now as, in all honesty, it varies day to day. Nonetheless, it is undoubtedly true that there are several pilots with around 350 hours TT and 150 hours on the Airbus being employed through Parc by easyJet. I hope that clarifies the situation.

All it clarifies is that EZY does in reality support the P2F concept by using the BMI P2F scheme as an entry stream. The very scheme that started its ugly life at EZY.

How very disappointing :yuk:

Apart from the BMI P2F guys didn't get paid?
So not really the same thing.

Has easyJet decided on how many 737 contract captains will be required for next year - I have not heard anything for weeks and am trying to work out if this means "thanks, but no thanks" or whether no decision has been taken yet...........

Watch this space!

They are getting towards the bottom of the command waiting list and are VERY short of suitable people to promote.

I suspect a solution will be to move people off the 73 and early onto the Bus.

Thanks for the replies. I shall just have to be patient.............

That'll be popular then....
 

I will refrain from commenting on the above speculation, but will draw your attention to the previous few pages of vitriol.

It's a hot topic :mad:

126 command planned over next 12 months i believe (from internal memo) with just under 200 awaiting a command and many more with the hours waiting to join the list/jump through the hoops. I wouldn't go popping the champagne cork just yet....but you never know what will happen at easy!!

Logically, i cannot see any need for DEC though for a while.

737 Contract Captains
 

Well, after all the comings and goings, did eJ take on any NG captains via CTC this winter?

Does anyone have any idea where the 200 odd cadets from CTC are being based at present?

All being sent to the sim for type rating, one after the other.

Being based all over.

Are they being based only in the UK?

No. All bases but remember cadets (Most) are NOT employed by EJ.

All knackered (5/2/5/2/5/2/5/2/5/2/5/2) and filing for bankruptcy one after the other too.......

Interesting, I thought we were on random rosters..