Originally Posted by
midnight cruiser
Paid as such? That was only ever barely adequate, and during and after covid, became inadequate; it's an increasingly competitive market for experience, and Ryanair in particular is severely light on total experience in the cockpit - totalling about five years airline experience summed between BOTH of them not unusual. But you're right, people just vote in their own narrow interests (or disinterests), even if it ***s other people (a bit like brexit).
Ryanair key competitors; easyJet, jet 2 etc etc do not do carry over of RHS service in bidding rights - ask yourself why!
I was not implying the Captain salary is especially good, but it is as agreed, on the company Captain salary structure.
I agree you should be paid more, especially for the amount of work you guys do.
As for the competitors, easyJet has the same system, FOs put their name on the Captains transfer lists early on when they reach a certain experience, and often decide to upgrade when close to the top, to avoid transfers, if they so wish.
DECs are based where there are vacancies and no FOs with the required hours or that cannot be ready on time.
A DEC that wants to be based in one of the popular bases have to wait as much as 5/6/7 years, with plenty of FOs ahead of him/her.