I'm sorry to say but you need to grow up a bit. The airline industry has never been fair, and the lower down the ladder you are, the less fair it is. This is not new. It has always been and always will be, like this. In fact, I struggle to imagine an industry which is less fair to its staff. The fact that the industry is trying to help the tcx pilots (while, of course, expanding into the gap that TC has created) is quite uplifting, but I am not fooled into thinking that it is altruism!

I can understand this line of thinking in your position although as others have suggested, this has nothing to do with fairness or time of application but more to do with what J2 needs as a business. And there is the crux in that like all airlines, this is a business.

By the same method above it is also true to say that if the situation is felt to be that unfair - maybe to be congruent with ones-self it may be better to remove the application from the hold pool and move your efforts to another employer?. Because this is a business there should never be any loyalty to one company alone i would suggest (which may sound harsh). Why? of course we have to remember that in any downturn there is no reciprocal feeling from an employer - they will shed employees as quickly as possible without any feeling of remorse.

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From the others Jet2 forum here


A321’s for next summer
Ground crew for Jet2 have just received an internal communication which mentions 7x A321’s for next year based at BHX and MAN. I’m sure there will be a statement soon from the company


7 Airbus 321 initially..... And more comming maybe

British carrier Jet2.com in summer 2020 season plans to introduce Airbus A321 aircraft on additional routes, replacing 737-800. As of 11OCT19, planned additional A321 service as follows.

Birmingham – Kos eff 04MAY20 1 weekly (Overall 2 weekly)
London Stansted – Corfu 22JUL20 – 26AUG20 1 weekly (Overall 5 weekly)
London Stansted – Kefallinia 27MAY20 – 16SEP20 1 weekly (Overall 2 weekly)

British carrier Jet2.com earlier this month begin Airbus A321 operations at Manchester, currently scheduled for the month of October 2019. In summer 2020, the A321 will be operating various routes on regular basis, including the following.

Manchester – Antalya eff 30APR20 1 weekly (2 weekly from 26MAY20, 4 weekly 01JUL20 – 25SEP20)
Manchester – Bodrum eff 02OCT20 1 weekly
Manchester – Gran Canaria/Las Palmas eff 06JUL20 1 weekly
Manchester – Kos 26JUN20 – 25SEP20 1 weekly
Manchester – Lanzarote eff 29SEP20 1 weekly
Manchester – Reus 26JUN20 – 21SEP20 1 weekly
Manchester – Rhodes eff 04JUL20 1 weekly

Any news on the pool???

Still no information (email) regarding the pool since first week of September.....

Please can someone remind me, didn't the Thomas Cook pilots vote against direct entry commands?

Really?

They made that vote before?

Well... we have to wait, I know.... but the waiting period without information is the worst thing someone can have....

Time is running

Thanks anyway¡¡

No, they didn't, and quite frankly asking the question this way is just !!!!! stirring.

The question of direct entry commands at Thomas Cook never arose as there were always both sufficient high quality SFOs ready for promotion and training capacity to promote from within, in the required timescale.

Some companies do them ( mainly in massive expansion ), some don’t.

Obviously any FO/ SFO already in a company will be displeased.....but airlines exist to try and make money, they don’t give a damn about your career path

Were you pissed when you wrote this utter garbage?

Don't feed the Troll:=

:D I had the same thought!!!