Originally Posted by
AIMINGHIGH123
Adding to the topic
2019
Airline: Flybe SFO 4 years in
Type: Dash 8
Hours Flown: 780
Salary: £52000 with everything (2020 salary looking like £0
Roster: variable. Summer 8 days off a month winter bit more. 4 sector days.
Love the job but aviation is such a rollercoaster. If you want money just go into banking. 10 years in even as an MD your basic would be about £500k plus about the same in bonus the hours are very long though.
Really sorry to hear about your job with Flybe, I think all we can hope for is that your 4 years means you’re a shoe in somewhere when this starts to recover (it has to!)
Wouldn’t advise going into banking if you think you’ll be making 500k after 10 years. Maybe 1 in 10,000 do. In all likelihood you’ll be making 60-70k a year if you’re lucky, doing 60 hours a week starting at spreadsheets and wanting to jump out the office window. Ask most pilots after 20 years if they want to keep flying they’ll say yes, ask most bankers (the 99.9% who don’t have their name on the door) if they want to keep banking and they’ll look at you like you’ve got 2 heads... You’ve made the better career choice!