Originally Posted by midjet
notdavegorman:
Bluebaron:
Thanks for the info, cheers. I guess your take home is not long haul or is it? that’s good money!
Cheers.
Can't speak for BB, but when I was an F/O, year 2 (only got command last August), I made similar money and that did include longhaul, but what you have to remember is longhaul in Brits/Tfly is only a small portion of our overall flying (none for me now on the 737
) so you could only reasonably expect about 1 trip a month at most. If that trip is only a few days away, yes you get Duty Pay 24hrs a day, but if it is during the summer you could potentially be doing many more sectors over the same time period and be clocking up Sector Pay, so if you include recovery days after longhaul the difference in pay is not massive. The biggest factor by far is Flexi Working. At £500+ per day for a capain and £350 for an F/O, if you get 2 a month (not unreasonable) that is a substancial increase in salary (£12k a year for a captain, £8400 for an F/O), and take home pay. If the duty goes passed midnight it may qualify for a double payment, so you can see how it clocks up. If you are ETOPS trained and they have a crew shortage on a longhaul flight it is not unheard of for a 7 day Mali to have been crewed using Flexi Working........not bad for 7 days on the beach; but you will buy dinner every night for the crew if you are pompous enough to tell them you are on Flexi....
So how can the company afford this? Well, crewing the flight with our own crew by calling in a volunteer from a day off is much cheaper than sub chartering the flight. It was a clever scheme devised by the pilots (through our BALPA CC) which was a 'win,win' for company and pilots alike.
PP