Originally Posted by
Paul852
Just to be clear, as I understand it, this is the amount by which the payscales rise to accommodate inflation. In addition to this all BA (and CX for that matter) pilots get an increase every year as a bonus for not dying, as I understand it. Is that correct?
As to accommodating inflation:
Hmm there are pilots in CX who stayed on RA55 who have only ever had one pay rise. I don't think KA has any A scale left but they probably were/are in the same boat.
A couple of points:
I see the civil service are expecting between 4-5% raise this year. Presumably the government has a pretty good handle on real inflation.
30 years ago a house in clearwaterbay cost about 2mill. I cant remember the rental at the time. It was a CX enclave with many pilots buying houses. Now none of the crew could afford to buy said property. I just saw the same house on the market for 68mil.
Irrespective of ones domicile salaries have not kept up with inflation.