Originally Posted by
CW247
I don't think it's good Whitemonk, but you're comparing apples and pears. The Eastern European ACMI jobs cater for a certain type of individual. Well, they're meant to but reality is all sorts will apply because they can't find a job at a "career" airline. ACMI jobs are fine for people who don't mind relaxing in the winter or have other sources of income. The business is only there for the ACMI in the summer, so why on earth should they employ people on a perm salary all year around? That's not good business sense is it? Horses for courses and all.
The days of 6k net per month for a Captain in Europe working for a non-legacy operator without sacrificing one's health on a daily basis ended a long time ago. You could be a FR or Wizz pilot and take home another 20-25k per year (before tax) but at the expense of what? For many people, it's simply not worth it. And that 265 figure will go up, come
2022, 2023
I get what your saying and I understand why anyone would take jobs like this at the moment when they are few and far between but prior to 2019 there was no excuse for accepting such crap conditions. There were plenty of jobs around. And 6k a month net jobs are out there, obviously taking the last two years out of the equation, I'm in one and I fly less than 500 hrs a year normally.
How are you supposed to plan to pay your mortgage etc if you don't know what you will be earning 6 months of the year? And 265 euros a day is crap, HGV drivers are getting £300 a day at the moment and can be fully qualified in less than 6 months. If Captains didn't accept such poor paying jobs then the pay would have to go up dramatically