Flaps One,
You state:
- The pay packages are slightly better than industry standard (both Balpa and IPA agree on that).
Please compare like for like. Our Salaries need to exceed those offered by other Jet airlines, for the following reasons.
1. No private medical insurance cover.
2. A poor pension contribution from the company
3. No interline staff travel arrangement.
4. No critical ilness/PHI cover
5. The company now aim to Achieve, what was one regarded as a legal yearly limit of 900 hrs. Other airlines pay a premium for anthing over 750 hrs.
6. Regular lengthy 4 sector days with 20 min turnarounds.
7. Loss of bonus for F/O's
8. 5 very early starts, between 0455 and 0600. Which most Pilots I know voted against.
9. No day off payments, even though the company now require Pilots to work anything up 0130hrs into a day off, without even another day off in lieu.
10. Loss of one weeks leave, following the fantastic pay deal 2004 which Mr Ree mentioned.This was below RPI. 4% over 18 months equates to 2.66% over 12months.
By the way, apart from the large number of F/O's and Captains leaving, there are at least 3 training Captains that I know have definitely resigned over the last month
Need I say any more
