Sorry for the wake-up call, but ISK 424k a month net for cabin crew is above what you'd get paid in a hospital, school and far more than you'd get at Hagkaup or Bonus. Remind me how much FI pays staff to read their staff update and briefing emails?
Play got investment because a lot of local investors believe Icelandair has real problems:
- We are talking about an airline that this week had a 757 stolen, no really that's literally what's happened https://www.rfi.fr/pt/cabo-verde/202...a%C3%A7%C3%A3o and that's without the shareholding that the government has just seized.
- Icelandair pilots last year were to replace flight attendants who voted down a pay rise, during a time when FI had maybe 0-1 return sectors across the whole company per day https://www.independent.co.uk/travel...-a9626041.html which is partly not untypical of union relations in Iceland,
- They've got a vast fleet investment issue, because of a mixture of geriatric 757 and 767s, plus 737-MAXs which don't have sufficient range for FI's network and have a market value way less than the financing costs https://airlinegeeks.com/2019/05/08/...-airbus-fleet/
The typical wage in the capital area is about ISK410k per month net. If you are in your twenties like most of the Play cabin crew, it's much less because you'll be in starter wages. So how is paying more than the average wage a bad thing?
Opinions on the uniform are pretty split. I was on the inaugural, the red cabin crew works OK and they love the comfortable shoes. Not too sure about the pilots who looked a bit like a stripper gram.
I think Play's bigger problem is that virtually none of the IT works, from what I hear.....