Originally Posted by
unitedabx
SAS is grounding flights due lack of crew. Norwegian has just added a sign on bonus for all type rated pilots. Jet2 will offer a type rating for free
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Companies still don’t want to typerate. A CX B777 10000 hour captain can apply to easyjet but they will pay for the $hitty 320 rating.
SAS are parking planes as they now have SAIL.
A low cost op from UK or Spain. Pay? €5000 for a 320 captain. Need to be rated. After tax= £3500/ month basic. For a captain. WTF.
So crew will still join on COS 18. It looks attractive.
Especially for Cathay Dragon where a command can be had in 18 months. You will still earn 3X that of a loco skipper in Europe. But of course the devil is in the
cost of living detail . And most guys don’t really do their research in this respect, do they?