Are there real upgrade opportunities for experienced First Officers within the company?

If anyone has gone through this process or has any recommendations or advice
Thanks !!

Yes, they also hire suitable experienced First Officers onto their upgrade program. Also non-type rated. The training for this program is long.

Successful wet-lease from GetJet. Peanuts/monkeys.

Do you really think this is anything to do with airline or flight crew?

Either they don't have a ground operations manual or they don't care if the handlers are adhering to it.
The former is the fault of the airline while the latter is the fault of the crew.

If you really work in aviation and thinking like this I am surprised. And, Yes crews wait and check always until all loading finished.

Finished? It happened during disembarkation/offloading. If you really work in aviation your company must have a procedure how to disembark passengers when both doors are used. That would have prevented it whichever way the skilled handlers were offloading the baggage. I bet it was not caused only by the baggage in the aft hold but by a handful of passengers moving towards/waiting for the aft door as well.

Wizz is closing Abu Dhabi base in September.

And whole AOC with it. Looks like 12 A321’s are coming back to Europe

What happens to the pilots based in Abu Dhabi? I'm assuming it's the curb for the ones that do not have an EASA License and European Citizenship?

Very simple.
They’ll have to look somewhere else.
Sad but true.
Luckily enough, the region offer now opportunities for qualified people.

Does anyone have a roster for pilots?
 

I really want to become a pilot, but it's not possible right now due to health issues, so I'm currently simulating flights with maximum realism in Vatsim. Does anyone have a real Wizz Air pilot schedule that I can use to improve my simulation?

Are they still putting a poor guy at the nose gear with headset on until fueling is finished?

Never saw this practice somewhere else. At least it provides for short briefings on the next sector :hmm:.

easyJet and Ryanair do the same. What's your point?

Indeed, a stupid pointless procedure invented by an certain loco which takes a pilot out of the cockpit. The fueler is monitoring fuelling anyway and has a shut off button!

You want to simulate being tired and miserable?

easyJet does not have such a procedure

easyjet don’t do the same for info

I understand this refuelling thing is only at certain airports. So not all the time.

if it’s at certain airports it’s an airport thing, not an airline thing then. Ryanair do do it routinely. It’s all to do with refuelling whilst passengers are on board. Some airports forbid it, some want the fire service in attendance, the essence is there needs to be a line of communication between fueler and flight deck in case of an emergency in every airline’s SOPs approved by the country of registration’s authority. Various airlines have different methods of compliance.