Why do you never see Ryanair pilots on here? You do its just that we generally don’t like putting our heads up in case they get chopped off. That’s the culture of this airline.
How can a company treat its employees like this and continually get away with it.
1) No water
2) No tea/coffee
3) No pay increase despite a
PRE AGREED AND SIGNED pay increase agreement
4) Pay for the car park
5) Pay for uniforms
6) Pay for medicals
So much for the Southwest model, where the employees are treated well, as a valued item.
The company made 200 million last year on the back of its personnel yet it treats them like this!!!! The Ryanair website still shouts about its fabled 5 year pay deal that it has just welched on. 3% !!! Well that’s on the basic that is MUCH lower than other airlines and equates to some 50% of your total pay when sector pay is factored in, so the 3% actually becomes 1.5%, far below inflation. Sector pay has not seen any increase in the 5 years. Remember also that all the pension health care etc is based on basic so we fall far behind in those areas as well. I for one would willingly forgo any pay rise if the company were in trouble and it treated the personnel with decency and respect, and you felt that they actually cared! This is just one more nail in the coffin.
So we are the best paid pilots in Europe are we!!! Well our basic is lower than any other jet operator I know. The only reason we make more money is because we work harder, 900hrs a year every year. It doesn’t reflect in pensions healthcare etc.
The worm will turn, pilots have already voted with their feet and are moving to the likes of Emirates. Does the airline care? No, because they can get new cheaper labour elsewhere at the moment. We are becoming the airline equivalent of a sweatshop!
Its not just the flight deck either, the airline is hugely short of cabin crew and as such call them out on their days off with veiled threats, these days off are lost forever.
Berenger Saunier as for
The only people who bitch are the tall poppyists and junior f/o's (take home pay around £2500-4000 per month btw) that haven't had any other job to measure just how fortunate they really are.
Im none of them!!
The Ryanair pilots are here, we are listening and our time will come