Originally Posted by
Mikehotel152
I don't know about that. What SD and Normal Pilot say about pay at FR seems about right to me.
An ordinary line Captain on the current standard contract at FR takes home an average of £6k plus £1k for their pension. The HMRC tax calculator says that is the equivalent of a normal world gross salary of £130k. It might not match Easyjet etc for take home pay or benefits, but there it is.
Nobody is waving willys.
The only people that include extras such as the £1000 monthly pension contribution are people like you. It’s meaningless. Nobody else in the airline industry does this. The FR pilot remuneration is awful, no matter how you try wrap it up. If your intention in presenting the ‘facts’ this way is to make yourself feel better, then god bless you. If your intention is to confuse and muddy the waters, then so be it. The pilot community has seen through FR claims that they pay market leading salaries... which they never did!