The email I saw was aimed at those caught up mid-assessment i.e. at stages 1, 2 or 3 rather than those who had passed the entire process.

I understand you don’t want to bother recruitment, but at the end of the day there is now a live campaign underway, so they should be expecting queries, and able to get back to you.

Youll be fine.

could be wrong (don't have manuals to hand) but it's a CS-25 aircraft, 10t MTOW or 19 seats or more.

737's are not going to Gatwick. They're linked to the Europa acquisition.

Thanks very much! Tried to find it online but didn't have much luck.

This is my current issue. EF is sadly a fairly decent paycut for me. I would take mainline in an instant, but another paycut while still trying to recover from covid financially messing us around is a hard pill to swallow at this stage...

Do you have a source for that? I have no inside information, just adding up the state of the GATs and MIDs pre-COVID let alone after 2 years parked plus the pre-COVID plans for 737 MAX that were relatively well advanced, including agreeing a cabin spec with Boeing.

If I were trying to make money with a new startup, flying 5 hour sectors in 20 year old jets wouldn’t be how I’d like to do it.

Are you supposed to apply to both the EF and mainline openings or apply for your preferred option only?

I could only apply for one. Didn't let me do both so I assume you go with your preference.

Having said that, those that apply for mainline/LHR have the option of ticking a box to indicate they’d be open to an offer for EF!

All vacancies will be on SH. LH will be heavily oversubscribed by internal bidders.

As things currently stand, this salary “Delta” is to remain in place until 2028. Caveat emptor.

BA have often recruited straight onto LH. it’s annoying if you’re currently an internal bidder but there’s nothing in BLR or the MOA to prevent it.

not correct. It’s much much longer than that. The 2028 was the rejected “deal”. Now it’s tens of years rather than 6.

I am well aware of that. But this year all external vacancies are planned to A320. Nearly the entire P32L list is free to bid, and 80% of them want to go longhaul.

The other 20% want to go to Jet2!

Personally the recruiting manager has form on recruiting directly into LH as no one wants to join BA SH as it is such an awful lifestyle. The manager ignores agreements and just seems to do what he wants. This is obviously all done with the acceptance of BA senior managers.

life in BA is pretty dire at the moment. Rostering is a nightmare. Everyone seems to be on endless reserves. No one answers the phones or responds to the ridiculous Pilot Comms Portal. But we do get some patronising emails from our so called managers claiming they know how tough it is.

If you do join get onto the 787/350 as these are the golden high efficiency fleets and if you are lucky you’ll get given a course 6 months down the line while others in the company are kicked out!! There’s is recession coming!!)

Honestly BA it just a brutal awful company. Why anyone would join is beyond me.

Perhaps it’s because it’s sounds so much more exotic when telling everyone (frequently without being asked) at the local pub / golf club etc that you are a Nigel / Nigella 😎😜

Just to reinforce the above posts…

As things stand, anyone joining right now is signing up to years of open-ended and variable pay cuts. Even if you can find our current pay scales (and good luck with that, because I can’t) they are meaningless: the ‘Delta’ that BA imposed during Covid - ‘negotiating’ with a gun held to BALPA’s head - means we are still paying for the privilege of having our industrial agreements upheld. Nobody knows for how long and how much, and despite endless and meaningless soothing messages from management, there’s no sign of it changing. Be sure to ask them about Delta at your interview.

I’ve worked for several airlines and some other big companies (much bigger than BA) before getting into aviation. The management culture here is truly toxic, and worse than anywhere I’ve ever experienced.

I am glad the above posters are sharing the truth to any potential joiners from within the airline. I said much the same in the ACMI thread and got lambasted as a Fanboy of Yorkshire Airlines but the reality is you would have to be nuts to leave a decent airline job to go to BA these days. TP guys will go obviously if given the chance as its a step up but who the hell would volunteer for SH BA on those payscales and live anywhere near London for the next 6 years or whatever, you'd really have to be short on options, and sense

Serious question; may I ask what’s so bad with the rostering at the moment? I work for a large A320 operator in Europe and across this whole summer have had nothing but short notice changes, changes on report, standbys galore, liberal use of discretion etc. I always presumed BA was a more stable ship. Is it just the most junior on the list getting these reserve blocks?

Edit: if you have any LHR rosters you’re willing to share please DM me