I just ran a reverse tax calculation . To take home £19000 / month , in the UK you would have to earn £410,000 per year. No commercial pilot in a brit airline earns this amount . Managers... yea you bet .
The point is a junior captain from easyjet , with 500 hours and around 7 years from their ab
initio training can relocate to Beijing & be taking home £ 19000 per month. Yes you live in china but wow , after 5 yrs come back and join Virgin. The money won’t have changed one bit !