easyJet to reach out to Thomas Cook employees to encourage them to apply for current opportunities

LUTON, England, 2019-Sep-25 — /Travel PR News/ — easyJet has today announced that it will be holding drop in sessions for Thomas Cook employees and bolstering its planned upcoming recruitment days in order to be able to accommodate more applicants from Thomas Cook.

The airline has also reached out to Thomas Cook employees to encourage them to apply for positions and attend the days.  easyJet has around 200 cabin crew positions and 20 co-pilot positions to fill for the coming year. A number of roles are also being advertised at easyJet’s London Luton Airport headquarters.

For affected Thomas Cook customers, easyJet is assisting with the CAA’s repatriation effort to provide a fully crewed A320 aircraft which is operating two repatriation flights a day to support the repatriation effort.

The airline is also offering a 15% discount for future travel for customers who had bookings with Thomas Cook which can no longer be fulfilled.*

Commenting on the recruitment drive, Johan Lundgren, CEO of easyJet, said:

“Everyone at easyJet is saddened by the news about Thomas Cook and we understand the anxiety that both customers and employees will be feeling. I am pleased we have been able to help the repatriation effort by providing an aircraft to bring UK holidaymakers back to the UK and rescue fees for those affected in Europe.

“As part of our ongoing recruitment drive we still have opportunities for around 200 cabin crew across our network along with a number of roles which are available at our London Luton Airport headquarters and for our easyJet Holidays team and so we are encouraging Thomas Cook employees to apply. We’ll be holding drop-in sessions for Thomas Cook employees around the UK, as well as expanding some of our existing scheduled assessment centres to be able to see more crew.

“We know that Thomas Cook’s people will be a great addition to the easyJet team and we look forward to meeting many of them in the coming weeks.”

The drop in sessions across the country are as follows:

• Peterborough on the 27th September. Join members of the Head Office and easyJet Holidays Recruitment Team to learn more about what it’s like working with us.

• Manchester on the 30th September & 1st October between 0930-1630. Join members of the Pilot, Cabin Crew, Engineering and Head Office Recruitment Team to learn more about what it’s like working with us and our selection processes.

• Birmingham/East Midlands area on the 8th October between 0930-1630 to discuss opportunities in our Bristol, Luton, Southend and Stansted bases.

For more information on drop in session and assessment centres visit https://careers.easyjet.com/thomascook

For all available easyJet career opportunities visit http://careers.easyjet.com/

Notes to editors

*Terms and conditions apply. Thomas Cook customers with a valid booking reference or ticket reference will be eligible to book easyJet flights anywhere on easyJet’s network up until 31 August 2020 at a discounted rate of 15%. Customers must book before 7 October 2019 and can redeem the offer by speaking to our contact centre on +44 (0) 330 365 5030.

For further information, please contact the easyJet Press Office on 01582 525252, log onto www.easyjet.com or follow @easyJet_Press

Source: easyJet

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