Yeah I’m exactly the same, hold pool since the end of January and just the generic emails. Seems most people recently have been waiting 1-3 months but I’m assuming any start dates now will be tail end of summer (especially for those of us with 3 month notice periods!). Seems myself and some people I know with Man/Bhx as their first base choices have been waiting a bit longer.

Ditto, passed NTR FO assessment at start of Feb. After the initial success email, I received a generic update email last week trawling for people who were able to start a course in April. Unable due to a 3 month notice period. Out of interest, I've asked for LPL as a base first choice. So far that's the only update i've had.

Has anyone had any update about hold pool moving? Been in since Nov. Seems to have gone very very quiet.

Rated or NTR? Have any 737 rated folks had any offers/start dates recently?

Got an offer on 737 non rated SFO starting end of July 24 , I can't start in July so hopefully I didn't miss my chance !!

Hi guys ,

can someone please provide the take home monthly figure for an Airbus captain ? I’m not sure how much you get in flight pay etc…. On top of your basic .
is it still competitive after EasyJet pay rise etc..

Can you still join EZY as DEC in the UK these days? I thought the cadet production line put an end to that?

You can't compare the airlines side by side. They are totally different.

I understand that , but money is money at the end of the day

You can definitely compare how much money you’ll estimate to come out at the end of each year..

A busy month would give you circa £13-1400 in sector pay and duty pay. Quieter months about £3-500 sometimes less.

Take home depends on how much you want to put in to your pension.

And for comparison on sector pay; at easyjet even in winter it’s around £1000. Summer month up to £1700.

yes but I believe at Jet2 you barely do anything in winter , looked at a friends hours and it was around 450 for the year

Directly in as SFO?

My hours for last winter; Oct 40 Nov 54 Dec 32 Jan 65 Feb 49 Mar 59. A fair number of unused standbys there as well, also the schedule is much less punishing, earlies not many before 6 and lates usually finished by 9/10.

Unusual to have 65 hours in Jan? I guess your base has a lot of Captains taking months off in deep winter. Even as a trainer that’s high for Jan.

@BasicSteve

You also might want want to consider that anyone joining as an Airbus non-trainer skipper will not do anywhere near the average Jet2 hours for a couple of summers, as most of the sectors are training to put guys in place ready for the ramp up in deliveries in winter 25/26.

This is great if you want an easy roster, but not great if you value sector pay over lifestyle. Since you stated money was the bigger factor you may be better joining a high-hours loco such as EZY or RYR.

I’d say this winter was higher than average, we are doing more winter sun routes than pre Covid. I also had minimal leave over winter as I took it during summer. (Highly recommended)

I've heard unpaid leave is offered over the winter. This has two results 1) the people who are working, are working much harder 2) huge amounts of standby for those that are working, to further incentivise taking the unpaid leave.

Could anyone confirm?

The winter leave has been a pretty good deal, take two months off lose only one months pay, so effectively it’s half paid winter leave not unpaid winter leave. It doesn’t generate more standby, if no one had winter leave there would be less flying to spread around between pilots so even more people on standby each day.

I Think the poster who listed winter flying hours was actually an easy jet pilot, if their posting history is anything to go by, hence the high number of hours. My highest was 40h in November and lowest was 8 in January. But that’s on the 737, as has been said there’s a lot of training happening on the airbus so low flying hours in the winter for non trainers. But that’s always been the same if you’re in a base with a lot of training captains, at least on the 737 fleet.