Originally Posted by nemutai
paid to become a pilot and trained in about 18 months, not studied for 5,6,7 years to get degrees whilst NOT getting paid.
It makes me sick
Yep I was paid to train as a pilot whilst on the cadet scheme - £30 per week for 18 months.
Oh and I studied for a degree for 3 years.
Oh and the job I was left was better paid, a couple of my mates still working for my old firm have 6 figure salaries where the first digit is a 2, and they're in their early thirties.
This whole thread is about BA trying to change the terms of our contracts when they can afford to pay, I am not prepared to fund new aircraft and not prepared to prop up other departments that haven't contributed to cost cutting to the same degree as we have. FFS we even funded the flight engineers redundency package a couple of years ago - yep that's right the pilots paid up for it when the company wasn't prepared to. Right now they can f**k off if they want anymore.
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