As someone going through the recruitment process at the moment a couple of questions please

Glad to hear the back to back scheduling is still an option. Do the company provide accommodation between trips? Are back to back trips easy to come by or are they much coveted?

Also, the 777 out of LGW; Are the trips out of there generally quite senior or as a new start are you likely to get a sniff?

Some great information on this thread so many thanks to all

At the moment in the normal process the company do not produce back to back trips that you bid for. Individuals create them ad-hoc, either by a combination of stage 1 and then stage 2 bidding or by trip swopping after final rosters are produced. Under EASA creating legal back to backs has become much more difficult than was the case before (basically nowadays the first trip of the pair has to involve a <= 3 hour time zone change from London, which restricts options).


At the moment assume the answer is no. If you do manage to create a back to back, you pay for it.

When/if people start working pre-constructed back to backs (as previously debated) then for some trip combinations the company will have to provide accomodation - at the moment we're being told that's probably not going to happen until the introduction of JSS late next year.

As far as LGW is concerned, you may get a sniff but there's a certainly hard core who like the beach...

It was suggested to me that a lot of the Middle East flights will suddenly become quite senior rather than populating junior blind lines due to the time difference being very favourable for back to backs.

Fingers crossed...

"will suddenly"....

Suddenly? As in midnight 26th March ??? ;)

I'd be very grateful in the recording. However, I can't work out how to PM you (new here)

Kind Regards

BA are going to be "saved by" British Summer Time!

I may have missed some information?

Can some confirm that you no longer need jet hours, and the Turb-prop weight limit has been reduced to be able to apply for direct long haul.

Not sure what the official line is but at the moment (8th March) this is in part what is written on the BA Longhaul DEP requirements page at:

British Airways - Careers - Job Details

I hear that some people are going straight from a prop (atr and dash8) direct to 777 and 747.

Curse my A320 rating!! Still as long as their start date is after mine I'll be laughing in the long run. I hope.

Don't forget these people may have previous Jet time, especially in the case of Q400 Captains coming over from Flybe where they would have banked the jet time requirement on the Embraer as FOs and SFOs.

HIghfive,

I would have thought that if you put it up on Youtube and gave a link to it on this thread and the "Wannabees" forum it would become very popular very quickly!

Is anyone who is flying long haul at BA and has had new children during that time willing to answer some questions via PM?

Yep. Go ahead and I'll have a stab at them for you

Sorry to change the subject however I am confused about some wording in the application, it says 12 months if you were unsuccessful at any stage of testing/interview/simulator assessment. You are welcome to reapply 12 months from the date you attended initial aptitude testing. I was invited back to do the interview again approx 8 months ago without having to do stage one again however my initial aptitude testing was 2 years ago, so as i see it i can apply?

Polepilot-If I were you I'd probably call the recruitment team to confirm. They have been very helpful on all the occasions I made any telephone queries during the recruitment process. The worst outcome would be to put in all the work and fall foul of something as minor as the 12month rule. Good luck!

On a slightly different topic- are there any fellow LH hold pool swimmers that have been allocated courses in Jul and Aug yet? I'm guessing the average lead time on call to course is 3-4 months due to the notice period most recruits have with their own operators. It seems the first half of the year for DEPs had a distinctly 787 slant. Does anyone know if this is still the case or are other fleets now soaking up some of the new entries?

RC10: I know people that have been offered 777 courses recently, with their start dates being in June.

And A380 with June start dates.

When I was given my offer on the 777, I asked the lady about a few things and she said the 787 courses were mainly full and no more would be going across until the Autumn.

Hello people. Does anyone know a way to prepare for the VTS1 test? Like a book or software or something else

I did day one just over 9 months ago, didn't pass, I believe BA have asked people in earlier than 12 months, is that automatic as I telephoned the recruitment team 3 weeks ago and they said it's still the full 12 months because of legality reasons the tests are still valid and that would need to wait, shame really as there long haul dep has been extended again now till April, are they getting enough applicants or are people struggling with the assessments