Qantas want performance based referencing but so many company's will not provide this. Most company's will only provide basic information and this can be an issue when completing this part of the process. I presume we will still have to undergo a 5 year background check to obtain a pass for London Heathrow?

Hello lovely people,

Congratulations on making it this far! Hopefully if all goes well we will all get to meet in ground school soon!

I’ve had the same issue with having have an unobtainable reference.

In the xref system it says all my references completed them but I received an email from Qantas stating I have an unobtainable reference.

I initially submitted 3 people just to be safe. The email doesn’t stipulate which reference it is and according to xref everyone completed theirs. I have emailed Qantas to see if they could provide me with further information. Unfortunately, I’m not too sure if I have the correct emails

I’m stating to worry that this will jeopardize my chances of being successful.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Can i ask if there is anyone who is doing the a reference and works for British Airways? If so are you having trouble completing the reference?

I'm ex BA, I completed the reference & rang BA HR to chase it up and they said it had been completed - I then received an email from Qantas saying that employment verification letters were not accepted so had to call around to request that a reference was completed again.

I contacted my previous IBM & CSM directly asking if they would be willing and it was completed the same day. Do you have your Team Manager / CSM's email or phone number to contact them? BA HR explained afterwards that they will only send a standard employment letter as a response to a reference request - frustrating but understandable given the amount of crew employed.

I received an email yesterday from Qantas asking for a scan of my passport to arrange a CTA. Anyone else in the same boat?

Yea I had the CTA email, does that mean the references are complete? Does anyone have any idea what Qantas ask in the reference?

I also hadn’t the CTA email and did XRef etc. On the assesment day(19th June), I’m pretty sure they said training would begin in August... does anyone else recall this? We’re getting pretty close to August!

They said training would be in Autumn on my day.

Has anyone had any recent contact with Qantas UK? The last thing I was sent was about the CTA card.

Nope nothing as well

Hello!! Bit late to the game.. but I am currently at BA and have done Xref.. I'm sure you are sorted now but if you need help let me know! Had the email for my passport copy too for the CTA, but haven't heard back from that yet.. Hopefully we'll hear a bit more this week..