A bond?? Haha you will be lucky. That's not a zero cost option!

Does seem to take a while to get a reply for each stage, probably good news if you haven't heard anything from my experience.

Well DECs are bonded. I guess it's a way of preventing guys getting their 500hrs on type and hopping over to Nigel air.

DEC's bring a little more to the table to be fair and are only bonded if you go to Portugal or Palma....NTR DEC at LGW and every other base have to pay for the rating :/

All pilots are bonded regardless of base or if they are NTR.
I believe it's £20k for 2 years for NTR (on top of the £20k type rating), and £10k for 2 years if you already have an Airbus rating.
This is for DEC.

If you're wanting a UK regional base then you're looking at 2 years minimum for BRS/MAN, 4 years for EDI, 5-6 years for BFS/NCL/GLA. London bases quicker.

Usually you'll start at Gatwick. The only option if your preferred base has a long wait is either moving there or going 50%, two weeks on two weeks off. You'll wait a good year before you can get on this pattern.

Regarding the bond- I have an email from EJ confirming what I said above.

NTR Captains ONLY avoid paying for their training and are instead bonded for 2 years if you are going to LIS/OPO/PMI. Those (including myself) applying for any other base (LGW for me) are required to PAY UPFRONT the type rating cost which is between £20-25k..

jayc004 isn't correct. I even had this confirmed at the interview.

VJW- when is your confirmation from?
That's interesting, as this has clearly changed in the last 3 months. The guys going through in August and September have been told they are bonded AND have to pay for type rating unless taking a Portugal base. If this isn't correct, then easyJet HR have not been forthcoming in clearing the misunderstanding up.

The interesting thing is that a lot of the guys from August and September interviews and selections have not had a final response from easyJet.

My confirmation from EJ recruitment was on 1/9/16. Not to mention- when applying for NTR DEC at LGW it had a box to tick right at the start, asking me if I was 'happy' to fund my training.

Their email reply to me after the interview where I sought clarification said,

"Unfortunately we do not have the option to offer a bond for LGW, this is specific for Palma, Lisbon and Porto bases only.
The NTR training costs between 20,000-25,000 which is to be confirmed by the training provisional. We are working closely with CTC and CAE to arrange the Type Rating courses.

Thank you for booking onto the SIM on the (date hidden- but coming up very soon- I delayed it due to having a poor roster currently), a confirmation email has been sent through to you today. If you have further questions please do not hesitate to contact us."

My interview was mid/late August.

People are extremely confused here. You can't be bonded AND pay for the training. It's one or the other.... A bond is where the company pays for your training and provided you don't leave within a timeframe specified for the bond, you do not owe any money back for the training. Paying for your training, means exactly that, and you can leave any time you want without incurring a further financial penalty, subject to your notice period.

I don't think EJ need to clear anything up, it's not their fault if people misunderstood something that is very obvious. Plus, if you have a doubt, email them rather than trust someone on pprune.

Does anyone else feel it is becoming scarily par-for-the-course to have to pay for your TR? Even for DECs now!

I didn't apply, I wasn't happy to pay 20k out of my own savings to work for an embarrassingly profitable company whose pilots recently voted for strike action over fatigue issues.

Why are we allowing this to happen?

Wow, that was fast!
I had an interview and went through everything in august, and am still waiting for a response.

The paying for the type rating is not being disputed if you are not taking a Portugal base.
I am however one of those people that must have misunderstood them when they specifically told me twice that NTR captains were required to pay £20,000 approx for type rating directly to the type rating school, and then would be bonded for 2 years to cover the subsequent OCC and line training at a cost of £20,000. This was in addition to the self funded type rating. When I asked why the NTR were bonded for £20,000 and the TR pilots were bonded for only £10,000 for the exact same OCC training, I was told it was because the guys doing the type rating were on payroll for 2 months at CTC prior to even getting to OCC.

So for me, what BBJ Captain is saying sounds correct. I was specifically told about bonding and self funding. There wasn't much misunderstanding.

I haven been told at any stage that they'll also be a bond. A question I'll ask if I pass the sim.

Ahh, the way you were talking was that you had completed all phases of selection and had been offered a contract of employment. You've just done the interview day.
In actual fact, you are still under the HR part of things, and still have the sim, psychometric and skype interview to go.
Everyone has to tick the little box that says you are happy to pay for the type rating on the initial online application form, but that isn't what I was talking about.

I would suggest that you do double check the bond thing, because it seems that we are all talking about different things. easyJet will not pay for ratings and bond you for any of the bases other than those already mentioned, and this is not being disputed. It's the additional post type rating training bit that is what we are talking about. This is the operator's sim and line training that takes place.
This is where the £10,000 and £20,000 2 years bonds come in to play. It was featured in the initial presentation at Luton. It detailed the process of how many sim training details and line training sectors you have to complete before being released to full flight roster.

Has anyone here been through the sim assessment recently with Easyjet ? If so could you describe the detail please

Thank you

Are you type rated or NTR?

I am being assessed as NTR

Hi everyone, i wonder if this is the right place to ask a question about the recruitment process through CAE for their ryanair program...I applied (sent a training request) over two months ago and i still have heard nothing back. is there a way of contacting anyone, cae or ryanair to see what the status of my application is?

This is the NTR Easyjet thread. However my advice would be never 'chase' a potential employer about your application. They probably have thousands to go through, and provided you got an automated response saying they've received it- I'd suggest waiting.

Hi

I still haven't heard anything about an outcome to my application. Had my sim assessment at the end of September. Just wondering if anyone else is waiting/or been informed of a result yet?

I think we might be the only applicants.