Can anyone tell me how long I would be waiting for a base in the Canaries if I join Ryanair as a Captain now?

Quite a while I imagine, lots of people internally want to work there, plus they are threatening to close down one of them, I think ACE? So those people will probably want to try and get into tfs. Not sure if the closure threat is real, but it was a threat to the chain crew that if they did not sign a pay deal by feb, the base would close...

its impossible to say, once the new seniority system for base transfers moves from date of request to date of entry you could actually find yourself moving down the list as new upgrades etc would come in ahead. There’s some talk in these bases of downsizing which wouldn’t help either, so the only way to be sure is if that’s the base offered on your contract

Thank you guys. Are these lists published so the affected employees can see it or do they keep it in secret and no one knows their exact position?

And people are still applying to an airline that behaves like that:confused:​​​​​​​

A lot of ex Ryanair pilots returning from Jet2 speaks volumes about your particular company too. I’ve seen their rosters both summer and winter, the lack of weekends off they have (2 per month in Ryanair) and the many assessed “as a body” sim sessions they end up with in LBA. The endless sitting in a taxi or renting a car from base to base.

I am not one bit surprised they are coming back. Some of them are paying off their RATED bonds to get out of Jet2 and return to Ryanair. That shows you how desperate they are to get out of Jet2.

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Can you quantify “a lot”?

Seeing ryr recruitment brag that they interview over 2000 pilots....you can drill a bit deeper...

thats about half their current workforce!! Not something that is worth bragging about! Yes they are expanding, but to have to replace such a huge number is not a good thing...!

And of that 2000 candidates, they hire about 800 cadets, and by their own admission its around a 50% pass rate for cadets, so thats 1600 cadets interviewed...(at 300e a pop remember..!!) so that leaves only 400 rated/experienced pilots.

Ryr is without doubt, one of the safest financially stable airlines, a great roster, great colleagues, huge variety of bases yet it is still very much the bottom of most pilots wish list. Most of the experienced candidates are from far flung parts of the world, not your usual household name airlines.

A good indicator is how many pilots go to ryr from the likes of BA,Easy,Thomson,Lingus etc. Crews leaving in droves to these companies. Even new bonded cadet fo’s are shortly off to transavia! Dozens upon dozens have left to join ez, not one the other direction. For ultimately an identical career, this should raise alarm bells for HR.

It could, and should be the employer of choice, the european version of SW. It would smash all competition out the water, in terms of profits, sales, rentention of staff etc. The AGB program needs to change gear significantly, and look internally as well, change its dna to make it the company that so many of their staff really do want it to become! There are two parts of the equation to having the correct man power, staff in and staff out!

Stop the staff out part, the staff in part becomes a lot easier as you need less recruits and word gets out that it is the career airline of choice and the queue for staff in will grow significantly.

And how many pilots you loose? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

However your Spanish is getting better everyday. Amazing

so I prefer to speak 2 languages with some grammar mistakes in one of them instead one like you.
Anyway you got the message... 🤗

also note that you have to be a very good guy for the comments you do to the people in this forum my friend. Jesus Christ God save me from sharing a bear with you. 😱