The Ghost.
The roster is 5/2/5/4 - always 5 days on, 5 earlies two days off, 5 lates 4 days off.
On your fifth late you are rostered to finish before midnight. However due to delays you can work up to 0130 into your day off without getting a new one. That can happen upto six time in the year. It has happened once to me. The first early always has to start 0600 Local or later.
Days can be 2, 4 or 6 legs depending on FTL and where you are based. Scottish and BFS bases do some six sector lates. On average expect two to three six sector days on your 5 lates. FTL's don't allow six sector earlies unless they are LPL-BFS....
You will not necessarilly fly both classic and NG depends where you are based. NCL, BRS and BFS are NG bases. EDI, GLA and EMA are classic bases and LTN and LPL are NG and classic bases.
The loyalty bonus has gone for copilots. Captains still get it and unless the pilots vote to get rid of it then it will stay. Don't listen to any management bull about it going. It ain't going unless we vote to get rid of it. They would like to implement profit share but we'd only vote for it if the profit share was better than the loyalty bonus.
No 13 month, this isn't Hong Kong!
Yes you get allocated shares. I think it is once a year. Also they have just introduced "Save as you earn" and buy as you earn. Save as you earn allows you to save up to £250 a month over a 3 year period. The share price has been fixed at £1.81 so at the end of three years you could potentially have saved £9000. Divide this by £1.81 and you'll have 4972 shares. At the moment the share price is around the £2.50 mark so thats a theoretical profit of 69p a share. This give a healthy £3400 profit. However the share price goes up and down so don't bank on it......
I enjoy it. It ain't the best place to work but neither is it the worst.