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Re: Air Transat hiring

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i hear that transat is hiring sunwing people on the next GS in march? can anyone confirm?
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Is that only for march?
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Does anybody knows what the March course made of? Is there a course for April?

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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Anyone know about the March or April courses? Have all calls gone out or are they still hiring? Any non-737 rated guys getting calls?

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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Some of those being interviewed have no TS type ratings
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Looks like the dual type vacancies are filled and new job posting is for 737 vacancies only. Closing date March 24. Still listing 737 type endorsement on the minimum requirements.
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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rudder wrote:Looks like the dual type vacancies are filled and new job posting is for 737 vacancies only. Closing date March 24. Still listing 737 type endorsement on the minimum requirements.

They should get filled as soon as the sunwing guys get laid off.....
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Ouch!!!

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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Bandit07 wrote:Ouch!!!

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You want ouch???

http://ca.reuters.com/article/idCAL3N0MA48P20140313
"Transat's net loss in the first quarter ended Jan. 31 widened to C$25.6 million ($23.0 million), or 67 Canadian cents per share, from C$15.1 million, or 39 Canadian cents per share, a year earlier."

There's ouch for you!

Now when will everybody learn that working together as pilots and respecting and understanding eachother's company better will actually us all in the long run? A strong Air Transat is good for Sunwing pilots, and a strong Sunwing is good for Air Transat pilots. But you guys would rather see the competition be taken out. What happens then is a less expensive rival comes out of the ashes and lowers the bar for everybody. Instead we need to focus on raising the bar industry-wide for everybody's benefit.

However, back to attacking one another. Have fun girls.
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Aerosexual,

Not sure why you are attacking me. I did not agree with the previous comment that was made. As you said, we are on the same team.

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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Bandit07 wrote:Aerosexual,

Not sure why you are attacking me. I did not agree with the previous comment that was made. As you said, we are on the same team.

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No attack intended, just a continuation of the conversation. But the sooner everybody realizes that playing together gets us further ahead, the better off we will all be.
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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rob-air wrote:
rudder wrote:Looks like the dual type vacancies are filled and new job posting is for 737 vacancies only. Closing date March 24. Still listing 737 type endorsement on the minimum requirements.

They should get filled as soon as the sunwing guys get laid off.....
?? I didn't read the whole thread, but sunwing has a job ad posted now for some reason...
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Re: Air Transat hiring

Post by FL320 »

The reason is that they will need about 70 or more new pilots for the next winter season and it takes time to train those guys. They will operate more aircrafts than this winter. No layoffs so far, some are still leaving to Transat....personal choices.
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Re: Air Transat hiring

Post by aerosexual »

It seems like Air Transat has stopped hiring as well, taking on less new pilots than originally anticipated. It should be interesting to see how Sunwing manages their winter flying requirements. The fact that they are starting this early shows that they are concerned but at least they are being proactive.
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Good day,

Does anybody know how Air Transat assigned seniority to new pilots? Pull a name out of a hat? You can PM me.

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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Combination of a few factors but last I heard it's not a lottery like AC. Your seniority number used to be a number of points.
Chief pilot for some company used to be the highest ranking, you get a certain amount of points for each 1000h jet time, for each 1000h mpic turbine turbine, for your TT. There might be a few other things you could grab some points from. Basically the idea is to reward the most experienced pilots coming in by awarding them the highest seniority spots for each GS. Hope it helps.
Any TS folks on here please weigh in to confirm.
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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This is to sort out the seniority within a group of pilots hired on the same class. They use a table that attribute points according to :
Jet or Turboprop time under 12.5
Jet or Turboprop time over 12.5 but under 44.0000
Then other points for jets or turboprop over 44,000lbs but under 100,000 lbs
Then again the same for jet or turboprop over 100,000 lbs
Within each of the above groups, some extra points for Captains, less for SIC.
Finally extra points for Chief pilot or Supervisor experience.

Sorry for DC-3, C-46, DC-4 or DC-6 captains and F/Os. That seems to be as good as Cessna 172 time to AT for attributing seniority when you are hired.....
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Re: Air Transat hiring

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So when do Transat decide your seniority number? On day 1? Do they assign your type also that day?

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Re: Air Transat hiring

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Your type is assigned before you even show up, your seniority number is assigned a week or two after you start.
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Re: Air Transat hiring

Post by Bandit07 »

What has been course bid so far? B737/A310 only or has there been some B737/A330 also?

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