kotakota,

I believe personal attacks are not allowed on PPRUNE, and I find your post highly offensive. I'm sure it is not difficult to identify the person in your post who you have slandered. Anyway, if you left BA 4 years ago how do you know this person who has only been in BA for a year?

I'm sure BA is a much nicer place to work now you have gone.

As many of you I'm swimming in the pool.

As you might see, my english grammar is not perfect as it is not my mother tongue, however I managed to pass the selection...

But with my lack of knowledge in shakespear's language, could someone please tell me what are the meanings of :

SSP
and
JOC

Thanks to all

Cheers

An olympic swimmer :ok:

SSP=Self Sponsored Pilot

JOC= Jet Orientation Course

This applies to pilots who have come straight out of schools with minimum flight time (eg Oxford), does not apply to a DEP (Direct Entry Pilot).

Sorry boys but I think the profits warning posted today by Wee Willy has just pulled the plug from the hold pool for the foreseeable future!

Hopefully see an improvement in 2010!

:mad:

Surely if there's some movement / courses then they must end up with a gap at the bottom ie) spaces for F/O recruits onto the most junior/unpopular fleet. In BA's case I believe it's the Airbus at Gatwick. I don't have any insider information but I wouldn't give up all hope yet if you're swimming.

Sadly 'career constipation' is the situation within BA. Which means the hold pool is likely to remain 'stagnant' for a while yet.

Oh my kockcota,

I think all of us F/O's are entirely grateful for ur crap timining because it is the very likes of ur attitude that gives the 'old school' BA skippers such bad press. Bet u were one of the many arses from hamble back in the days. I suppose too that u believed the only role of the FO was to carry ur bag. TIT

Take ur drivel elsewhere.

Are chavs allowed in here now? :p

I'm not sure about chavs, but they let me into the hold pool and I'm from Essex for god's sake. Standards clearly aren't what they were!. :E ;)

kokatoa

are you one of those sad old men who looks forward to ba news every week, then writes in with some odd tale of the good old days? or a complaint about staff travel?....yawn....

i'm sure my grammar is wrong somewhere....still won't affect my flying...

I'm another Essex boy in the hold pool so they really must be struggling:}

cunningplanmylord - I'm not defending kotakota's attitude, but is it any wonder that people like him get wound up when they read posts such as yours?

You, not u.

Your, not ur.

Please, let's have some standards!

How do you know his name's Mark?

:ok:

Me thinks that your all gonna be in the hold pool for so long that your gonna come out all PRuNe like.:} that is if the plug isnt pulled on you first.


Good luck:ok:

The fact that you guys are in the BA pool shows you are of good standard!

I do hope you are trying elsewhere.....:ooh:

Any news?
 

Just wondering if anybody has information on what is likely to happen to the DEPs and SSPs waiting in the holdpool? Has gone very quiet since the last email from John Monks.

bf

I guess that's because no news since then...

Reading between the lines again, I would guess that there will not be much if any recruitment this year, especially as BA's premium traffic is dropping off, along with the easing of the 80/20 slot restriction, let alone the release of the FAA/NTSC statement re:777 with RR engines.
To be perfectly frank, I don't think BA can actually guarantee a need for all of the pilots it presently has. If there is a grounding of the 15 777's with RR engines, it could mean we are a couple of hundred pilots overmanned. I would imagine that the situation in Waterside is very fluid at the moment, and to reiterate an above poster, I would be looking for other jobs at the moment. Personally, I am getting back into IT temporarily as anything could happen. Sadly, your/our livelihoods are in the hands of Obama, Brown and some unelected EU comissioners.

kotakota - a little ill-considered perhaps? I'm not sure you can either judge a person's professional demeanour or flying aptitude through postings from a worried group of people posting anonymously on PPRuNe, all of whom are seeking information in trying times.

Your apology please?

Hmmm, don't know where you get the idea of even the possibility of grounding the RR 777's? Rolls Royce has a new part on the way, there are 'top of drop procedures' in place to prevent ice build up and, even if there was discovered to be a constant, tenable risk on long, high cold soak sectors then the RR777 could be re routed off those sectors.

It's all doom and gloom in the world without inventing new bits!

If I were in GE marketing I would be baying from the highest hill top to get the rollers grounded, but that would just be marketing.

Interesting, times ahead as business plans and cost saving procedures get resolved and announce I think we will hear more, until then you just have to keep treading water!

Good luck