easyJet Reviews

Cons

Staff travel is only possible with easyJet. No ZED agreements, no staff travel with other airlines :(

Cons

The pay isn't as goog as Ba

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Facilities are dreadful
Hard work to get to
Hot desking culture as company hiring in a very small hangar with no room for expansion

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I came here from another airline and have been shocked at how it runs.
You work long hours and with no breaks it's very tiring days off are spent recovering.
Four sectors days with few minutes from each passenger load coming onboard means you don't even have time to visit the bathroom.
Rosters are not fairly given out so you could do short routes all month for a small wage or longer for a good one but it's luck of the draw.
This base is very gossipy and mean and management don't seem to care its quite a miserable place to work. Crew who have been there longest are dissatisfied with the place but I think stay because of shares and benefits and because they have a secure job.
I wouldnt tell anyone who wants to fly to come to easyJet it really isn't worth it.

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Fatigue which is a huge issue amongst crew and flight deck!
One passed away of a heart attack whilst fighting them in court over this!
Bullying from management down!
If you issues regarding safety or other crew aren't at all related to boosting profit then they don't want to know! Not even a visiting the police over harrasment interests management as keeping crew seperated hinders the program thereby hindering profits!
Only those without a shred of integrity get anywhere in this company and the few good souls are miserable!
The lure of a permanent contract seems to keep people applying but it's just a ploy to keep crewing levels afficient or else turnover would be high!
Repetitive strain and chronic back and neck pain is widespread
Crew clean the aircraft up to four or five times a day
On some routes breaks aren't acheivable which contributes to fatigue
Management only care about money and targets

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Sole priority is shareholder dividends creating toxic profit-centric culture that sends a torrent of bullying and bureaucracy downwards. End result passengers are treated like cattle and only dysfunctional individuals who love drama tend to stay on. Decent crew face a bewildering network of obstacles if they attempt to do a good job. The few good people they have literally hold up the company like the Greek God Atlas used to hold up the earth.

When you attempt to report a safety issue at LGW you are treated like the sole cause of the problem and are then placed under microscopic scrutiny and fired for the most trivial breach of the labyrinthine network of rules. A cynic might speculate the rules are made complex to facilitate this process. At some points I considered going directly to the Civil Aviation Authority with my concerns but the realisation that I would probably end up in court defeated my resolve to do the right thing.

To give an example of managements incompetence: There was an ongoing issue with batteries in the hand held sales terminals going flat due to age. Three years went by and this wasn’t resolved. A phone call to the manufacturer revealed that I could have, personally, with my own credit card, sorted out half the aircraft at my base in about 7 days. Yet, the company would rather convene committees and sub-committees to scratch their heads, draft reports, find blame and create bureaucratic quick sand everywhere than actually just buy some new damn batteries. One time they had crew bringing toilet rolls from home because a dispute with a supplier was leaving their aircraft with no toilet paper and cabin crew were sick of the unhygienic conditions it created and the generally {censored} working environment.

There is a book by economics professor David Graeber (title of which I cannot say, google it) that explains the flaws of companies like easyJet perfectly and would have helped me avoid this hell on earth company if I’d have read it earlier.

Cons

Can't think of any cons apart from centralized decision making which can be bothersome to those employees remotely located

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lots of hard work
angry passengers to deal with
very long shifts
working on birthday , Christmas an new years
the more you work the more the money you can make !

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Hard work during Summer
Long delays from Main airports

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Flexibility, loyalty scheme, it systems need to catch up