Fully agree with Six on this one. Witnessed AAR have a chat with one of the fellas in the CBC before a flight not long after the pay cut was announced, and then out came the letter addressing the topic of that conversation...the pay for deadheading. Think its time we get off our arses and politely voice our concerns.
The deadheading decision is a major step forward, but until the issue of reserve is taken care of, we are still facing an uncertain future re days off etc. As an example, my NOV roster has just shy of 100hrs credit, 8 days off, but still 3 reserve days!!! Hope this is not a sign of things to come!!!
As an amendment to one of the posts above, pay for leave was 2.5hrs per day, pay for SIM reserve etc, is/was 3.5hrs per day.
Don't be too quick to let this go. This was what you were told you were going to be payed when you decided to join EK. The removal of this from your credit towards pay, as well as the reduced credit towards pay for short sector flights (no longer 3.5hrs for MUC BAH etc) still means a pay cut. So far I have not heard of any other group of employees within the EK group taking a pay cut. It is all well and good for people like Desert Knight to say we should take in on the chin and stop complaining, but I wonder what he would think if it was him taking the cut to fund the bigger profit, while no one else in the company has to.
DON.