Do you get rostered home standby's as part of your work week during the summer?

Mostly home standbys with a few airport duties thrown in.

After reading over 40 something odd pages on this thread, can someone please clarify this;
Can you voluntarily choose a part time (50% or 75%) contract on entry? And if you wish, can you opt to stay on a part time contract permanently?

It would appear to have crept under the radar a bit, but looks like applications on oracle have opened again in the last couple of days? Seemingly for NTR too!

Interview and Selection process
 

Hi Everyone

Any ideas on the assessments and selection process?

Thanks!

One of the many reasons I left after 19 years of full time at aged 54. No proper part time available any more. Just every w/e//bank holiday to work and then random part time days off. That said may change back in the future but too late for me!

Does anyone have anymore details as to what Monarch are actually offering? Is it definitely 85% contract etc? What's the average monthly take home pay for a year 1 FO? Are they looking for guys to put onto the new 737's? Or will it be onto the A320? Details on the website as usual are fairly limited.

Tt
Where did you go ? Retire or overseas? Just curious as im over 40 too ;)

Difficult to retire after that 'restructure' scrubbed our pensions! Gone to the sand long haul. Feels a little like retiring!

Recruitment is onto the Airbus, in order to be online by summer 16.

Boeings don't arrive until Apr 18.

Company have agreed a return to 100% by May 17 for everyone. What happens in the meantime is up for negotiations. Hoping for a halfway measure by next summer.

Assessment
 

Any details of the assessment for TR guys?

Any news as to whats happening at Monarch - see they are advertising for a new Head of Pilot Traing, so is another one leaving?

Previous has only been there 2 years or so.

........ and a very good guy he is too.

Going to Virgin, might be missing flying big stuff as he came to us from emirates (A330), nothing secret about it or people jumping from a sinking ship, people move on simples, you can rest easy now !!!

Ask any BALPA member, employed by Monarch "Is Monarch a career airline, or a stepping stone airline?"

Just to complicate matters, the Sunday Times today (Sun 27th) is reporting that Greybull have put MON up for sale.
mcdhu

A good time to leave, I think.

ST may have embellished but probably only in the speculation on who has been approached. In one case, if its true, definitely time to leave.

Surprise surprise - not.
Good luck guys & girls again !!

As far as I know, not only have Monarch cut considerable costs fom their operation and become more efficient they have also been profitable over the last financial year. It is not a loss making airline any more! Only Greybull know why they bought it in Autumn 2014!

You have to take this profit bit with the pinch of salt the new purchasers will. When the new company came in they slashed salaries, got rid of pensions etc etc. On top of that the price of oil has nose dived. This does not indicate a company out of the woods and on a high, it indicates pure luck. Any potential investor will see this. Some of the top people that are left are now leaving. The infrastructure of the airline is still completely mismatched. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. The slots at lgw are a nice thing but if the company is left to crumble those slots whont disappear for the vultures. Unfortunately for the good guys at Monarch they already find themselves yet again worried for the future. They will either have another new boss soon who will no dowt want to cut salaries once again before purchasing or they will shut down. A crap outlook either way. I hope the good guys get out and sharpish. Unfortunately the Pilot management now in charge don't give a toss about the standards that made M great, they are just yes men and looking after themselves. Greybull have done exactly what you would expect. There's no loyalty to the M pilots anymore from the company. I just hope they all realise this and search elsewhere. Good luck to the GOOD GUYS

Can I just point out that the negative views that get expressed on this thread are being copied and used by an invidious Facebook site that has dedicated itself to demonising Monarch.

JaxofMarlow

I couldn't agree more, people need to be careful with expressing some opinions on a public forum! The dog eat dog mentality of many pilots springs to mind when I read some of the comments here! :ugh: A bit more support for colleagues and friends at Monarch would be better than this negativism and cynicism which always surfaces at times like this! We are a miserable bunch sometimes! :sad:

Crosswind. I know what you mean. When we were made redundant at GSS those kind folks at British Airways defaced our lockers, and not with kind words :eek:
I hope that Monarch gets itself sorted and doesn't get passed around between a load of hedge fund carpet baggers. Best wishes to the crews.

Seriously?

Shame on them . . .

I'm afraid I don't agree guys. So are you saying we should only say positive nice things about companies? Has this nanny state even entered our profession? This site is for most of us a place to get an honest open portal by which to make certain decisions. We have different opinions and ideas on things and when you,start worrying about what will be taken and used then the spine starts to crack and it will never end. I like to think I post a fair appraisal of a company I know quite well. If you don't want to listen then fair enough. If you don't agree then fair enough. But don't start telling me what and what not to say. If a company is failing then people need to look frankly at why that's so. Not stick their heads in the sand and get angry with people that try and yank it out.
Having said that as I have said many times I worry for some of my colleagues that find themselves in this position again, it's terrible and most of us have been in a similar position. I hope I am wrong and Monarch are doing as well as some think. Time will tell and the best of luck to my friends and colleagues

I don't mind what people say - they're entitled to their opinions and the future of the company won't be decided by pprune, will it!

Mesh, nobody was trying to sensor you, they were simply highlighting that anyone can read this forum and some of those people might actually believe you know what you are talking about and use your ill informed speculation to enhance their own agenda.

I have no interest in engaging in an argument about the success of Monarch mostly because I have no idea what's true and what's not. All I will say as someone who still works for them is that despite everything I still hold them in high regard. I have never enjoyed working for a company as much as I do Monarch (and there has been a few) and I hope and pray that everything will work out. I have my own brain and like most people employed at Mon, capable of making my own decisions regrading the future but being told how :mad: I am on a daily basis is not helping and frankly not a useful contribution.

As I said Enzo some will agree some won't. If you don't like what you read then don't look at the thread, simples...anyway all the best and I truly mean that

mesh. OK. We do live a free society and you can post what you like. As Enzo has said we do not know the truth of the position with Monarch and I am sure you are doing nothing more than speculating as well. Trouble is your speculation is being presented as the views of Monarch pilots and that is just not right.

Mesh

I always thought you worked for Monarch - at least that's the impression I got reading some of your old posts. I don't work for them but have good friends that do. Still a good airline but not what it use to be in terms of scale and variety of routes.

For sure some of their recent recovery is down to a little luck but that applies to most companies. Timing is everything in business and that is partly luck! Running an airline is a mysterious black art from where I stand! ;)

Hopefully it'll be a busy summer for them.

I agree, all the best to the guys and girls that have made Monarch what it was....and just for the record my opinions are my opinions and not those of some of the Monarch pilots. I will remember to put a few disclaimers when posting again just to keep all happy. Long live freedom of speech and democracy :)

Is swapping of trips allowed? Say I wanted to take someone elses night Ibiza in exchange for an earlier trip in the day, are you allowed to do that?

Short answer -,Yes, if both rosters still work.

Now that Monarch has transitioned into a low cost scheduled leisure airline, are crews still flying 2 sector days? Or are 4 sectors part of the roster?

AFAIK, it's still 2 sectors. Most destinations are too far away to permit 4 sector days to be undertaken.

How are things going now in MON, are the finances looking stronger than before?I know of one guy in there who loves the company and the roster seems much better than what I have to deal with.

Currently flying the 737 for the last few years but i'm looking to get out of the current employer and I know they were looking for 737 pilots earlier this year.

Any rumours of them needing some extra pilots again this year?

Yes we are looking for 737 rated pilots over the next few months

RHS or LHS?