otoh its arguably even harder short term. iirc the pilots have 12yr min service, so you have to be sure you're going where you want to be.justice wrote:
Yep, flying for the military is a much better route with better career prospects.
BA recently said they were looking to start recruiting cadets as soon as next summer.justice wrote:
BA haven't hired low houred cadets for the last 5 years, and plan to never again, it takes at least 15 years of flying for shit low cost carriers before you're at the stage to be hired by BA or Virgin, and even then to land a job with them you have to be extremely lucky and you have to know certain people....and then if you take the job, you are demoted from captain to junior first officer, and have to wait another 15 years before you can finally become a captain on a wide body, at which point yes the pay becomes good.FatherTed wrote:
still is over here m8, they get payed a shit-ton. if you get on BA doing the transatlantics or pacific routes, you're golden.11 Bravo wrote:
dream job my ass. although if you fly for one of these airlines owned by the state or just recently owned by the state....or pampered by the state (cough air canada cough)....then yes. other than that fuck it. still would do it all over again but wouldnt call it a dream job.
Where did you hear that? As far as I'm aware, BA said they MIGHT consider hiring pilots in the middle of next year.PrivateVendetta wrote:
BA recently said they were looking to start recruiting cadets as soon as next summer.justice wrote:
BA haven't hired low houred cadets for the last 5 years, and plan to never again, it takes at least 15 years of flying for shit low cost carriers before you're at the stage to be hired by BA or Virgin, and even then to land a job with them you have to be extremely lucky and you have to know certain people....and then if you take the job, you are demoted from captain to junior first officer, and have to wait another 15 years before you can finally become a captain on a wide body, at which point yes the pay becomes good.FatherTed wrote:
still is over here m8, they get payed a shit-ton. if you get on BA doing the transatlantics or pacific routes, you're golden.
I understood that they don't advertise for cadets much, they have 3-4 approved flight schools they go to, to get their cadets.justice wrote:
Where did you hear that? As far as I'm aware, BA said they MIGHT consider hiring pilots in the middle of next year.PrivateVendetta wrote:
BA recently said they were looking to start recruiting cadets as soon as next summer.justice wrote:
BA haven't hired low houred cadets for the last 5 years, and plan to never again, it takes at least 15 years of flying for shit low cost carriers before you're at the stage to be hired by BA or Virgin, and even then to land a job with them you have to be extremely lucky and you have to know certain people....and then if you take the job, you are demoted from captain to junior first officer, and have to wait another 15 years before you can finally become a captain on a wide body, at which point yes the pay becomes good.
That's pilots, pilots with thousands of hours of experience, I don't see them hiring cadets in the foreseeable future myself.
BA do pluck the occasional cadet with perfect test scores and first-series passes every now and then, for example they might go to OAA (oxford aviation) and take 1 or 2 a year, but I don't think they will advertise for cadets again.
Wow, I blubbed for about half an hour (epic astigmatim FTW) and picked something else.Uzique wrote:
well needless to say i screamed a lot and called my family a bunch of fucking losers
they just didnt understand man, you know? it was painful. i didnt speak for 4 years because of piloting and nietzsche. fucking nietzsche. i didnt even like his dumb book.
