I agree with Trossie, Jet2 are big on their social media policy at the moment, as some within the company have found out to their cost recently! Good luck to all trying to join, it's not perfect but Jet2 is a decent place to work once you get on s permanent contract.

Except...

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JJP said

Just curious as to why you had no choice in this matter, is it something that you have encountered often?

At the moment Jet2 are recruiting rated and non rated F/Os and Captains on the 737 fleet, rated F/Os and Captains on the 757 fleet and ab-initio S/Os. I cannot even begin to understand the number of applications that they have to sift through so I would be surprised if anyone in HR has currently got the time to trawl social media or rumour sites.

However once the dust has settled a bit and they’ve narrowed the applicants down to a small group of ‘definitely maybes’ they may start looking at social networks etc and if they have 2 very similar applicants with one post to fill then comments on these sites might be the deciding factor over who gets the job.

Perhaps if JJP were to carry out a wee bit of judicial editing of their past posts now then no damage would be done should they fall under the social network microscope at a later date.

cross wind limits
 

magicmick

Not sure that I have said much to be criticised about in my posts.Please read on.

My reference to landing in a crosswind when I had no choice referred to my Instructing days when one could find yourself returning to the departure airfield or visiting another airport like Blackpool (coastal airport) and the wind could be gusting well above that which was forecast.

My point as also about experience.I referenced the programme 'terror in the skies' because on that episode there were clearly aircraft struggling to land in a crosswind that was clearly 'out of limits' and it seems they on that occasion had no choice but to land either.Of course company policy should always be adhered to but all the facts of the situation must surely be evaluated.If low on fuel for example, it may well be that Captain makes a decision to land in consideration of the fact that he would be endangering the lives of all on board if he could not land.Nothing wrong with applying well taught CRM based princples.

Second point illustrated in the programme is that every pilot is trained to a certain level of competency.This does not mean that all pilots are equally capable.Just as not all drivers could be formula one drivers.In this regard,refering to the film footage,in the same crosswind how was it that some palnes managed to land an one made at least two go arounds?

There was a recent fairly well publicised incident where an aircraft made a missed approach at both ends of a very long runway (or at least dismissed the notion of the 2nd approach ? ) due to finding the tailwind out of company limits, but within the manufacturers limits.

A decision was made to divert & the aircraft landed with a bit less than final reserve fuel.

Without wishing to be a Monday morning quarterback, I would say this displays what you are referring to . . . . . it is called experience & airmanship. Sometimes the small transgression may be preferable to taking a much greater risk. Only experience/judgement (or relative lack of) will influence your decision, good or bad.

Captplaystation

Indeed and thank you.

JJP I truly meant no criticism of anything that you’ve posted on here. What any individual chooses to post (within reasonable limits) is their own business so please accept my sincere apologies if I was not clear earlier.

If anything my post was more intended to point out that HR departments would not bother looking at any of these sites until the final stages of recruitment, if at all.

Of course any pilot has choices to make regarding cross winds etc and may be compelled to land in circumstances beyond manufacturer or company imposed limits and every situation is unique and has to be judged in isolation.

I didn’t catch the tv programme that you refer to.

Good luck with the Jet2 and any other applications that you have in now or choose to submit in the future.

Mods please change the name of this thread to jet2 & crosswind thread, :ok:

magicmick reply
 

magicmick

Hey you really didn't need to apologies like that.Absolutely no offence taken here I can assure you.Feel free to delete that post if you want to.I don't want you to look like you need to be apologising honestly.

Thanks for the good wishes and best of look to you in your present or future career.We all need to help each other out on here where we can.

Jjp sorry didn't realise you were talking about s/o ......... And was just passing on what I heard jet2 were looking for, as I stated was just my opinion and what I read into it all..... Good luck anyway

No stress Jimmy, despite my many failings, if I write or say something that is perceived as being critical when that was not the intent, I like to think that I’m big enough and honourable enough to at least apologise and set the record straight. Probably not a very trendy thing to do these days but that’s just me.

As Boeing Europe has pointed out the thread is drifting way off topic so it’s time to let it get back to its original purpose.

I look forward to reading about your success either with Jet2 or another operator in the near future.

Until then stay safe and be careful in those bloody cross winds!!!!!!!

I would put one of those thumbs up smiley things here but every time I try I get some weird symbol that looks nothing like a smiley so I’m afraid you’ll have to make do with a good old fashioned :-)

Jet 2
 

Magicmick,


Cheers my friend!I too had trouble with the icons!Just deleted a post because I inserted the 'handshake' and it came out as 'thumbs down' !!Now wonder people are misunderstood on here sometimes as that doesn't help.We will get back to topic now eh?!

@ magicmick & jjp
 

Jeez you two guys.....get a room :}

Only if Jimmy’s paying and I don’t accept cheap budget hotels either, I didn’t think that it was possible to drag this thread further away from its original purpose, just goes to show how wrong I can be. How come you can get funny faces on your post and I can’t?

Perfect example of prune thread drift...
can we get back to the topic in question

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News on Applications?
 

All I have heard is that they have received thousands of applications, and it is taking a bit longer than it was originally anticipated to shortlist candidates.

Good to luck to everyone :ok:

Application portal closed
 

This is now closed folks!!Good luck to all who applied!!

To clarify?
 

It would appear that you may still apply for FO/Captain jobs across a multitude of rated or non rated opportunities, but that the SO job is no longer advertised.

I think that is perhaps what JJP meant?

closed
 

Narrow runway

Yes that's what I mean....