Yes, the question was if BA is going to open anytime soon another round of recruitment.

Regards and thank you all

Angelo26

A BA pilot I met yesterday said the word was, BA short of 100 crews (not pilots) for the planned Summer schedules. Said that was just SH, but sounds a bit excessive??

Rumour is going round that we’re short of 300-400 pilots. I would personally suspect we’re short of more than 50 in the RHS Airbus, especially once you factor in Gatwick.

Various numbers, sometimes into three figures, of various variables are now being mentioned elsewhere accompanied by pleas for people to pick up extra work ..whatever the metric (pilots, crews or pilot days) it does seems short haul are going to be significantly short of bods over the next few months....

Won’t that mean we just get 9 Qatar 320s in for the summer?

The use of Qatar has to be approved by the CAA. I think it’s only approved under “exceptional circumstances” rather than every time we have a crewing problem. Frustrating indeed but not as concerning as being way over crewed. Head down, plod on and keep your leave because you know if you sell they will get every single penny back from you.

Concerning too that there are still mugs who will help the company out, even for the pathetic 1.25x NCP. We as a pilot community need to grow a pair. After years of having our perks and Ts & Cs chipped away at we still help them out in a bind. All that’s going to do is embolden the company to keep coming back for more, shafting us royally and we’ll still bend over and take it. We need to take a long term view here and remind the company who actually holds the keys here so to speak.

Yep, agreed, ..but since the plea on Yammer came from one of the well respected “good guys” (that appointment was a clever move by the company IMHO) I suspect some will still do the work or sell back leave for the initially offered rate, despite pleas not to do so....because “we can’t drop XX in it......”...

One has to ask what NS has been doing over the last few years for it to get that bad?! PS Enjoying my leave!

SH had been gunning for NS for a while so I hear. Rank incompetence or so I’m led to believe.

bex 88 said ..The use of Qatar has to be approved by the CAA. I think it’s only approved under “exceptional circumstances” rather than every time we have a crewing problem.

bex88 and you think that would be a problem...it will be granted in an instant. BA peeps need to understand it might end up being on other fleets beside the little bus. Where is BALPA on all this...

Do you have a pulse...

Lisence...?

Bring on the summer!

30 hours for a week’s leave, boys... 😂

B

If you have ever sat in an A320 flightdeck, maybe to have your photo taken with the captain, please call BA recruitment directly.

We would also love to hear from people who may have a few widebody aircraft lying around that they aren’t using this summer.

Preferably with engines that won’t shake themselves to bits mid Atlantic.

And bunks.

Good luck getting guys to start tomorrow with Procius so amateurishly running the airside pass security referencing. 6 weeks would be ambitious to be frank.

A friend who was renewing his, having worked for his current employer (not BA) at the same base for 10 years now took 11 weeks for Procius to sort it out.

His old pass ended up expiring and had to go around on an escorted pass for a few weeks. Amateurish.

Heli-wings,

Are you willing to share why you turned the offer down?

The pool isn't quite empty, there's a fair few at my airline who haven't had the call.

I agree, Procius are useless.

It baffles me that they still manage to get any work. They must just quote the lowest price at any cost.

I first encountered them many years ago when I was doing my CPL......they were put in charge of sorting references for an airside pass for me to be a baggage handler. Painful!!!! Nearly gave up and went back to being skint!