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For those weighing up BA or VS, I think go with your instinct. BA is a career for life with probably more opportunities, undoubtedly make far more money and are a much bigger company. Although I do think having survived covid we’d get through most things. Branson only put forward a fairly small % of the cash injection, most came from other investors. We make plenty of money, VS are just too clever to call it profit, otherwise you have to pay tax. I personally enjoy it here despite finding it difficult working environment the last couple of years. Thats changed over the last 6 months and i think our new deal puts us in a good place again. Command time sits at 8 years right now vs BA’s 15+ for widebody.
Always 3 days off required between east to west or west to east. 4 days off if youve been to the far east.
year 1 SFO basic about £97k, with additional 6k in sector pay. £103k total. All of it is pensionable at 15%.
Theyve promised that anyone who wants any contract (part time/booster/750 etc) will have it granted as soon as they can. More recruitment needed now. Hopefully they deliver on the promise and i think a lot of pilots dont trust the company to deliver on that. Understandable after what they did over covid. New joiners must do 12 months on base contract before applying for another.
Interesting, thanks. For comparison, BA begins on just over £71k with what I expect is about £25-30k in allowances. Take home probably fairly similar but pension only on basic, so significantly less there. Allowances at BA are a good 30% of your take home on PP1 so sickness/fatigue/leave/part time all gets heavily punished financially, just as BA wanted of course. If Virgin go back to 750 hours there's no arguing it's a better deal on paper.