Compared to other Captain positions within the UK, it's not a terrible salary. It's pretty average. Yeah, it's long haul, but short haul on 850 hours is harder work, no? They don't earn more than £130k on average. To match EK and QR's take home figures, salaries here would have to double but right now there's no other DEC Long Haul positions available in the UK or in Scandinavia and so people get to decide what's more important, to be at home or a higher salary. You Yanks are obviously on Cloud 9 right now, and though we aspire to reach your salary levels, we won't ever achieve them due to the broken and fragmented pilot group we are in Europe. Well done, but don't go comparing your successes to ours.