Originally Posted by
midnight_aviator
Cool. Thanks bud, that’s really helpful. Good to get an insight to make a meaningful comparison. EZY is 5/3/5/4 pattern with a random month every 4 months or so. 25 leave days which is a bit pitiful, and pension currently 7% 5-10 years with the company, basic, loyalty and sector pay was £155k last year
All-in (including pension) you are probably looking at around year 10-12 in BA to get back to the same. That is today’s pay in BA and itll go up roughly 12~15% by summer 2026. You’d have to compare it to easyJet’s pay offer but I’ve heard this will be better than BA’s so by 2026 the equivalent easyjet year 10 pay-point in BA will be nearer to year 14/15. By which time in easyJet you’ll get 5% more ofcourse as loyalty bonus goes up to 15%.
So a year 10+ easyJet skipper in financial terms is probably around a year 15~17 A320
skipper in BA. Its hard to get apples to apples. So the pay is certainly better in easyJet for command on an A320 for those years.
But then factor in the afforementioned night jet ban at LHR (i’m never home that late) plus the option of longhaul (which pays more and has more days off as credit density is higher on average, plus a free sun-tan). Also, after year 17 BA’s pay keeps going up to shy of £200k all-in plus pension money of about £30k from them. That takes 34 years to achieve though! And by then most people are on longhaul. That’s if airplanes still exist in 34 years though!