Can one still be recommended by a friend?

Got the email and booked the assessment !
Still no light on the contract type if lucky enough to be selected :*

It is very clear what sort of contract you are going to get. You will be taken on as flexicrew for one year on an hourly rate, before joining the Company proper as a bona fide easyJet employee. Thereafter you do one year a Second Officer on £38k and no allowances, two years as a First Officer on £44,901 + around £8,270 sector pay and then after 2 years in rank (4 years since you joined as flexicrew) you become a Senior First Officer on £55,120 + £8,270 sector pay. Those FO/SFO jobs can end up as 75% salaries depending on which base you go to, as not all bases can offer 100% contracts. All contracts will be get the usual loss of licence, pension contribution of 7% etc. It is only when you become an SFO that you will be guaranteed the 5/3/5/4 roster pattern instead of a random roster. Also the promotions to the different ranks have some total flying hours experience limits attached to them which in the vast majority of cases would not be an issue.

Once you become a Captain, your basic salary is £90,012 (90% of that for the first 6 months) and your sector pay is £26.20 per sector (the Company assumes 480 sectors a year) making the total sector pay around £12,576. In addition you get a 'loyalty bonus' of 5% of basic after 2 years, 10% after 5 years and 15% after 10 years. Those years are backdated to the day you join as an SO, so if it took you 8 years to be come a Captain you would kick in straight away to the 10% loyalty bonus. Again, the Company pays 7% of basic + loyalty pay into your fund each year. In addition there are various performance payments of 2 weeks salary depending on Company success - for a Captain that is capped at £3k and has been paid the last 2 years and probably this year too. Finally, if you become a Training Captain, there are various 'levels', all of which are pensionable (i.e. your 7% includes your Training Captain uplift). You get 12.5% for a Line Trainer, 15% for a TRI, 17.5% for a TRE and 20% for an Airborne Base Trainer.

It's not very clear at all, as there is nothing official about the contract at any stage thus far. Only stuff on here which is anything but concrete. Yes you may be 100% accurate with the details and this is not intended to be a slight on your post, but more about the amount of conjecture on here. It's staggering. We'll find out when they ask 'do you have any questions for us' down at the luton hanger. Go along, do your best at interview then decide if you want it.

ADM is correct, this is the contract and career structure that has been agreed with BALPA. So I don't really see your point of it being unofficial.

In addition easyJet is negotiating with banks to provide a loan structure for newjoiners that reduces their cost in the first years but keeps the total lenght of the loan the same. And offcourse get better interest rates.

The CPT sector pay is 28.75 now :ok:

I totally agree with the post above....also considering that it takes quite an effort to be able to attend the screening process in Luton for someone on a tight roster like everybody usually gets during the summer months.

Anyhow, thank you for the detailed info Alexander but I do hope you are incorrect !:{

Out of interest, when have assessments been available?

ADM, that is the career structure for new entrants to the industry (cadets). Nothing I have read from Balpa or easyjet has any mention of flexi crew or second officer for experienced pilots and the lack of Ctc involvement in the process thus far would confirm this. I applied for the position of first officer and can't afford to accept anything less, as will be the case with many others. Particularly if I have to fund type training. So I would agree that there is uncertainty about the contract.

737Jock
 

The point i was getting at is i have no idea who ADM is, whether he/she works at EZY (posts suggest yes) is involved in this recruitment process etc. Until i get something with an EZY letter head on it, everything else is supposition.

ADM does work for easyJet, is correct with their details, and if you then unfortunately there will be many behind you who can and will! These are the agreed T&C with BALPA and, in a year of record profits where we still had to fight to try and get an inflation payrise, there is no chance of them chucking a better deal at you just because you ask for it. Unfortunate - but there we go.

I hear what you are saying, however wasn't the vacancy advertised for a direct NEC FO employment with easyJet (willing to pay for your own typerating) instead of an intial flexicrew contract via Parc or CTC for a year. I appreciate the BALPA negotiations were only concluded after the vacancy was posted and thus things might have changed.

Looking at the article posted below I nderstand there will be 5% expansion per year( maximum)

I wonder if someone joins now, how long will it be for upgrade...

anybody willing to clarify?

Furthermore, the conditions posted above are valid also for guys/gals already typed and experienced (I hope not because I will have to turn them down)?

Regards

Big announcement from easyJet today -

Following a highly competitive fleet selection process, easyJet plc ("easyJet" or the "Company") announces that, subject to shareholder approval, it has entered into arrangements (the "New Framework Arrangements") with Airbus S.A.S. ("Airbus") to acquire 35 Current Generation A320 Aircraft for delivery between 2015 and 2017 under its existing agreement and 100 New Generation A320neo Aircraft for delivery from 2017 until 2022, under a new agreement. Under this new agreement, Airbus has also granted the Company the right, but not the obligation, to acquire up to 100 further New Generation A320neo Family Aircraft.

Key highlights of the transaction:

Allows easyJet to continue to execute its successful strategy. New generation aircraft sourced at highly attractive prices and at a greater percentage discount to list price than the Company’s existing Airbus contract. Enhances easyJet’s cost advantage and mitigates against inflationary increases; the 180 seater New Generation A320neo Aircraft is expected to deliver a cost per seat saving of between 11% and 12%, compared to a 156 seater Current Generation A319 Aircraft. 85 of 135 ordered aircraft will be used to replace ageing aircraft as they leave the fleet and return to lessors, with the remaining aircraft used to continue easyJet’s existing strategy of capacity seat growth of between 3% to 5% per annum. Continues the high level of fleet flexibility provided by the current arrangements. Whilst the announcement today will deliver a fleet of 276 aircraft by 2022, as of today, the new arrangements also give easyJet the ability to manage the fleet size to between 165 and 298 aircraft in 2022 depending on economic conditions and opportunities available. Total expected fleet acquisition and overhaul expenditure as a percentage of revenue is expected to fall from 18% in the period 2005 to 2012, to 10% to 12% in the period 2018 to 2022.

Last email from Pilot Recruitment:

It's all good and well hearing the above terms and conditions on a public and anonymous forum and I don't doubt them for one minute. However, as you can see from the above, I had been led to believe that it would be a permanent contract from day one (if you wanted).

Regardless, I'm still waiting to be enlightened on why the airline is incapable of setting out such details in writing at the initial application stage? If that is indeed the offer on the table, why no mention of it UNTIL candidates have taken the time and spent the money to actually come for the assessment? The approach is nonsensical and will result in the wasting of time and resources.

It is a permanent contract from Day 1, in that if you do not do anything unbelievably stupid in your first year you will be kept on. There is effectively a year's probation, which is common in all airlines (I accept usually it is 6 months). Therefore this is not a contract - there is a guaranteed job for everyone taken on.

EcamSurprise - I will have to see the detail, but that is clearly what we have been led to believe and would not expect any substantial deviation from the agreed NEC.

So all in all, right up there with Jet2.com's attitude to pilot recruitment. Pathetic!
And it could so easily be very good...

What is confusing understandably is that you all applied for a contract that would see you joining as an FO/SFO depending on hours. However recently the contract has changed, and you are now subject to these changes rather than what was originally on offer.

It will be interesting to see when we hear from the horse's mouth! I'll be shocked if they spend a chunk of cash putting 400ish pilots in the sim to then tell them that "actually, the goalposts have moved. We're now offering a 12 month contract as a cadet. Then maybe a permanent job."! Followed swiftly by "where are the details of the guys we knocked back?"

Well the 'goalposts' have seemingly moved in one way or another every 6 months for people currently flying with easyJet.

Please don't be shocked as to which side of the 'goalposts' any new starter will fall on.

Xulu,

I am sure we will offer the lowest package available that is acceptable to the candidates.

If all you lot said no to joining at the start of the 12 month period, then the entry point would have to be increased.

The new entrant contract that AdM has correctly described is designed for low hour (cadet) entrants. Where experienced pilots will be slotted in will depend, I suspect, entirely on "market forces".