I've heard BA are about to sign a deal for 20 747-8s

Still three months to go until April 1st.

Ah yes RexBanner but that does not mean there was not the odd wetdream last night.....

Can anyone elaborate? Is 200-250 genuine?

Haven’t seen anything on yammer or the usual channels to elaborate further but I recently had a four day trip with a trainer and he quoted the same figure.

It came from a Chief Pilot video. A figure of 200 was mentioned. Interestingly, this is before the impact of the Monarch slots is taken account of. Good luck to all those in the pool. Sounds positive to me.

How many in the hold pool right now? I would guess less than 50 FPPs would be ready this year?

Seems that all the new routes/expansion from the monarch slots have been announced on BAs website.....all Europe beach/leisure routes!

60 FPPs to join from Dec 17 onwards.. I thought we only had 100 in the hold pool.

Retrojet

Whatever the plan for them is in the short term, I don't think you can draw any conclusions about their use beyond 2018. It may well be the plan to transfer them slowly across to long haul as was/is the case with the BMI slots at Heathrow.

Fair enough....but even for short term....good news for TR'd guys and girls, well I guess it depends on the leasing of Qatar and Titan aircraft initially and then what ever happens in terms of sourcing extra aircraft

BA Cityflyer now flying some of the routes till the end of the year at least confirmed.

I wonder how all these leased aircraft will affect recruitment for us lot.... BACF, Qatar? and Titan?

Retrojet the Monarch slots will affect the amount of intake in a positive way. Using BA Cityflyer, Titan and Qatar is more expensive then having (bigger) BA aircraft operate these slots.

The post from Jet Set Willie is incorrect, there is a lot of wishful thinking within BACF, but so far BACF will only operate a few slots out of LGW, mainly in the weekend, from the 9th of Feb till the end of the winter season. This is when mainline think they have enough aircraft to do these flights themselves.

I understand recruitment have been contacting those who were rated previously to clarify their circumstances, I guess something is about to start somewhere.

Can anyone clarify the latest info?

Which ratings were they asking about?

"Can anyone clarify"

Approx 200 this year, 60+ are cadet with the rest dep
Expecting it to be similar numbers each for the next 4 years
Could be more if lots leave over the current pension and bidding system changes

Source : top horses mouth

Any ideas when the next lot of movement will happen? I know they said next update will be mid-January....any rumours floating around.

Hopefully soon Retrojet but the new flight ops manpower department seem to like saying they'll give updates which never turn up on time.

Min 30 Direct Entry onto the 787 this year.