I hope that
carmoisine won’t mind me giving a response to the post above by
X-centric because I too am fed up with posters who claim that their narrow experience of Ryanair applies to everybody else. Take this nugget:
It's the best damn pay in the industry.
So that’s for everybody then is it …. or just for some contractors … or are you just leaving out the (many) inconvenient exceptions out of genuine ignorance?
Or this nugget:
What has really annoyed me, however, is the total falsehood on which this particular thread is based:-
Leave has been cancelled for the next two months for Captains and First officers at two of the largest bases. Crews being denied the allowed holiday periods.
1000 Flights already cancelled due to "Boeing Machinist strikes" ; real reason because of Pilot shortage.
The correct figure is 1200 flights (being 200 rotations for each of the next three months). Source: Ryanair Press Release of December 20th (you can read the Ryanair spin on their website).
If you are a well informed Ryanair pilot you might occasionally visit EMA. Maybe you should talk to some people up there about the pilot shortage. They seem to have noticed what you did not notice and might even give you a more vivid picture of the realities if you ask. You can then work out if the cancellations are due to Boeing or the shortage of pilots, especially trainers.
Or this nugget:
Leave has been cancelled …
Within the last hour I have been looking at a new survey on the REPA site about leave in Ryanair. There are not many responses there yet, but the trend is blindingly obvious (and it does not seem to accord with your experience. Funny thing that.). I don’t quite agree with how
carmoisine put it. I’d prefer the following version which is consistent with what is already on REPA. Leave has been unavailable to many pilots at many bases for some time. Some pilots applying for leave as far back as the summer have been unable to obtain their leave and most of these will, come April 1st, will lose that leave permanently. The numbers affected are unknown, but appear to be substantial. (Oh, and I forgot, leave has been removed from the STN pilots pages on Crewdock... and a number of other bases ... had you not noticed?)
So, which one of us is in contact with the realities of Ryanair
X-centric, you or me? No, it is not a matter of opinion or propaganda. Somebody is wrong here.