Completely agree with you mate, it is sickening, people who have worked so hard to get to where they are shouldn’t have to work themselves into the ground. If the constant rumours that are flying around at OAT are true most of the airlines will be recruiting by the time I qualify in March ’05. I live in hope 🙂

I think you’ve summed it up perfectly Lee. I’d go to Ryanair first and foremost because I love aviation and I want to live my life long dream, and trust me that’s something you need to concentrate on while your at flight school sitting in a classroom!!! 🙂

Sadly for younger guys like myself who are training for our ATPLs Ryanair looks like the only viable option for a job. It seems to be the only quick step from flight school to a decent jet.

As EGNM says passenger traffic is up 400% over the last nine months alone. I’ve flown both STN-BLK and DUB-BLK several times over the last few months and the flights have always been packed. On top of that there are Keenair/Flykeen services to IOM and BHD as previously stated. The daily flybe BHD service is expected to return in the summer as it has over the last few years. There is also regular holiday traffic from the likes of Thompson (Britannia), First Choice (Air 2000) and Iberworld, so generally things are looking rosy!

I know several people who work at BLK all of which are very enthusiastic about the airports future.

Jeanske_SN, Blackpool may not seem like an important city to someone outside the UK, but it is the UK’s most popular holiday resort and also provides access to the Lakedistrict national park and offers a good alternative to Liverpool and Manchester Airports.

I’ll definatley be there if I can get the time off at OAT! Might even come up in one of the training schools planes!!

Good news indeed, this should leave some space at the locos and regionals as people like wys move into long haul! Maybe, just maybe I’ll find a job!!!

EAL_KING, I was flying back to London with bmi from Manchester on Sunday (15th), we must have passed each other without knowing it! I was on G-MIDL, a A321, was supposed to be a Fokker 100but the aircraft went tech the day before.