Whitemonk Returns
Perhaps the Spanish pilots slipped your mind 'cos your financial situation isn't a disaster but to say that the fault lies with the lack of generosity of the Spanish furlough scheme can only be described as a possible attempt to insult my intelligence. The UK furlough scheme is paid to the employer up to a maximum of £2,500 per month and JET2 are paying their UK pilots 70% of their salaries. For the sake of simplicity assuming a monthly salary of £10,000 per month, JET2 gets £2,500 and pays out of the JET2 bank account 70% of the salary or £7,000, of which JET2 have been paid £2,500 by the UK government. This means that JET2 are out of pocket by £4,500 (£7,000 salary at 70% less £2,500 UK furlough scheme). Evidently and according to the foregoing figures JET2 is only meeting 45% of the hypothetical £10,000 monthly wage, due to the reduction of salaries by 30% and the contribution of £2,500 from the UK furlough scheme.
If there wasn't any specific discrimination intended of the JET2 Spanish based pilots, then a similar offer of meeting 45% of their original salaries the same as the UK pilots would seem to have been fair and would have been gladly accepted. As things stand one of the important financial supports of JET2 are the Spanish based pilots and their sacrifice won't even be appreciated, when this is all over.