Originally Posted by
RexBanner
Flight Pay and Allowances are closer to £30k than £20k nowadays, post pay deal and how busy we are. Pro rata I’m £27k for the year so far and I’ve had a couple of extremely (unusually) quiet reserve periods and a lot of leave (carried over from last year) so I would be on the low end I would imagine. However remember this is money that vanishes if you break your leg or some other equivalent misfortune befalls you.
Quite right Rex. Over the past year I've done 38 trips, 700hrs (bit of unpaid leave and got sick a couple of times). At todays pay rates would be £24.5k allowances for that year. More typically would be 45 trips or so, much closer to 30k.