Holer....

If invited for interview you'll get a phone call first, followed by a letter with details of the interview day.

If you are successful at interview, you'll get a phone call a few weeks later to let you know you're in the pool. If unsuccessful you'll get a letter.

As far as time in the pool is concerned, it seems to be a minimum of 6-8 months at the moment.

Hope that helps

:cool:

Bearing in mind that last year another company was contracted to produce a new Airbus CBT for Virgin and at that time the 300 series aircraft were due to be phased out, can anyone confirm whether new joiners on the Airbus fleet are being trained onto the 300 or the 600?

It's not much different to what you're getting - I get about £3200 before pension contributions. But I get useful allowances, I don't go to work as often as you do (like 4 times a month!), there are no 'earlies' or 'lates', I don't pay for my uniform, or food and I have a 3% annual increment whatever else goes on pay-wise.

Dunno. Virgin USA is nothing to do with Virgin Atlantic.

Virgin has fewer female pilots than you'd imagine, given the progressive image the company likes to give out. The proportion is about 10% or less. Anyway, your qualifications are fine, so please apply if what we do floats your boat.

Scroggs,


Thanks for all the good info! But what about VS gearing up for the Sydney route, has this been approved yet and is there a start date?

TBE.

scroggs,

Do you know if VS recruitment is ongoing? Or is the hold pool now full? Thanks.

TBE There is no news on the Sydney route at the moment. The projected start date remains at the start of the winter schedule - October 04. As far as I know, the only remaining hurdle is EU approval, which will presumably include approval of CX operating LHR-JFK.

go_edw As I understand it, interviewing is still going on. The company has publicly stated a need for 70 new pilots this year, and I'm pretty sure that we haven't selected that many yet. The hold pool was intended to allow training to start as soon as expansion plans were known. While there are still imponderables, which might limit the rate of uptake of new pilots (see above), I imagine that the hold pool will gradually be emptied. I will see if I can find out more next time I'm in UK.

Holer Moler Sorry - missed your post. The usual deal is that Janine will try and ring you to arrange an interview. I imagine that if you're not available on the phone for whatever reason, she'll try e-mail and snail mail. Depends how much notice she has of an interview slot, I'd guess. Same goes for notification post-interview, though an offer of employment must (I think) be in writing. Um, forgive me, but I would have thought this is pretty obvious?

Scroogs: Thanks

Regarding vs recruitment does anybody have any information about the interview style and test formatt? Is the tech test still a group thing?

Regards Easyflight

does virgin interview and/or hire foreign pilots?
i'm italian with 2000h military jet + 2000h MD80 JAR25. here the career is dead!
thanks scroggs
:D

Is it Virgin Atlantic policy not to acknowledge applications unless they are interested?

I ask this because I applied about 2 months ago, both online and by sending a cv, I meet all the application requirements but have since heard nothing either way

Any info Scroggs?

harrier67 Virgin does employ non-British nationals - as it must by EU law.

AERO DYNAMIK I'm not sure what the current policy is about acknowledging applications. I imagine that there are too many to reply to all of them, but I would be surprised at you not receiving some kind of communication if you meet the requirements. There's no harm in writing to Janine to see if she has received your CV (make sure your contact details are up to date), but I would avoid trying to telephone her as she is extremely busy!

They have just announced new routes to the Bahamas and Cuba.
According to the BBC that means 70 new flight deck jobs there:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3562717.stm

Good luck to all those applying.

Cheers,
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HaM :}

Here is Bloomberg's take on it: Virgin Expansion Plans.

Vigin's own web site (see here) suggests that there will be two extra A340-600s arriving in the next two years, bringing the total to 12. These aircraft may be from a cancelled order, though I can't be certain of that. The suggestion in the Bloomberg article (and above) that a further 70 pilots will be required doesn't seem credible to me - 2 extra aircraft would require around 40 pilots (16 captains & 24 FOs), but I believe that's on top of the 70 new pilots required by the already-announced extra routes to Australia and the USA.

Whatever the final numbers, things are looking up!

Still waiting patiently.
Hopefully it won't be too long now.


Thanks Scroggs for all the info so far.

Scroggs,
I'm still treading water in the pool - is there anyone else who we could get in touch with at HQ to get an idea of when we might get pulled out?

Many thanks! :ok:

I (and a load of my pals) all got start dates over the last few weeks (some 340, some 744). We all got the call on a Friday afternoon with 3 months and a couple of days notice of our start dates. This tight timing means you have to quit your current job before getting a chance to do the Virgin medical. Shouldn't be a problem but still unnerving. Everyone on the 340 is getting a full course unless you have 500 hours operating 330 experience. Current Boeing pilots seem to be invariably ending up on the Airbus and current bus drivers seem to be going to the Boeing! Whatever floats their boat...

Out of interest Virginia would you mind telling me when you were interviewed? I have a few mates in the pool and was just trying to work out how far down the line they are.

Cheers

Well it would give the game away if I gave you the date of my interview but I can say I know a guy who was interviewed in the last month who already has his start date! On the other hand I know a guy who is a CCQ from the 330 who is still waiting for a start date who has been in the pool for 6 months.

Virginia Plane:

You haven't even joined Virgin and you have that handle already, keen or what ;)

Scroggs:

You on commission? :)

crewrest: I wish!

Goodness Gracious Me: No, not as far as I'm aware.