What am wondering is ... Do they pay anything to assist the tests? Aka flight tickets, hotel etc...? Rather cheap not doing it....

ha ha yeah they provide first class travel and a night in the Dorchester 😂

I don’t think BA believe that they need to particularly encourage pilots to apply by providing hotels and flights. After all, there are enough people that will accept the relatively poor T&C’s on offer, and them complain about them once they have joined. Who knows, they will probably pay for their own headsets and uniforms too.

That's funny, proly pilots like you makes the industry force us pay for our travel, accommodation etc just to go for their interview which +50% don't pass. Even acmi companies are paying for that. Not to mention the big ones like Qatar, Emirates, etihad etc which they pay for everything. Shame on you.

BA used to provide flights and hotac (in the nice Edwardian, together with a slap up dinner). That was some time back, mind.
Fly Dubai don't provide anything, (not even on their own flights), so I never pitched for the final stage. I actually could have gotten there more or less for free, but it was the principle.

The moment BA need to pay for hotal and flights they will. Fact is it hey don’t and never have so why would they? Sure it’d be nice, but I don’t see why they would or should tbh. No shame involved but thanks for the personal insult. I think to survive in BA you’ll need a thicker skin. That is, if you can make it to London for the interview without a flight and hotel provided

Emirates never used to pay for flights to Dubai, for assessment, back in my day.

Some sort of, perceived, motivation test for future pilots - all changed now, of course.

I can't see an insult on my writing tbh.

Stopped wondering why we can't get anything done with the unions in Europe unlike America reading this kind of messages. People still surprised cadets pay for their type and training. Marvellous.

I can.

However, I'd like to thank you for your insightful and helpful addition to this thread.

Amazes me how much money is ‘earned’ for doing a relatively straight forward job !

Hi all,

Just wanted to say a big thanks to all those who've contributed to this thread with well thought out posts and useful information about life at BA etc.

Going through the application process myself, so it has been really useful to have!

What a lovely post - very best of luck with it all. Hopefully see you in Pret!

Hello everyone,

I’m going to be sitting the BA Crew capacity (eagle) technical assessment, for the whitetail/speedbird self sponsored pathway programme, to apply for a role as a First officer.

To anybody who has sat/knows about this test: Is there a joystick involved?

no joystick involved, use skytest software and you will be fine. dont calculate the maths to a decimal point, just guesstimate and get the aircraft descending sooner rather than later so you can focus on the most important stuff (elec page, fuel page, radar etc)

Am sure you had it hard back in your day, leave the money talk to those still flying. Enjoy your pension and some sun 👍

Thanks, hopefully see you there!

Join the club. I think short haul are getting called soon after the sim but that's because they've got lots of seats to fill for their SH fleet. The LH lot, less courses in comparison I believe. Unless anyone else can shed some light?

Hello guys, maybe I’m arriving late here, but I would like to know more about the environment in BA, I just sent my documents and received the invitation for Ana online interview, but for that, I don’t know much about the process and also the directly flight deck environment to work in BA. someone can help me with details about the hiring process and how good is British to work? Thank you in advance.

Also if a BA pilot can pm me, I will be so glad.

happy landings

I would also like to say thanks as this thread helped me when I was applying late last year. Currently in the job and nearly done with training. 90% of the information is accurate or spot on.

Hello again guys, another 2 questions that I didn’t find around here.

If I have an EASA medical, should I get the initial CAA UK medical or there is any kind of convalidation?
and during the screening we should pass through BA medical exam ? What can I expect ?