Easy is now taking on people on direct entry saleries.
I know one personally who comes with a turboprop background and less than 1000 hours total.
We are hugely short of FO's with many skippers now flying together.
On DE conditions its a good deal, take home just over £3000.
You'll work hard but hey...you know that!
I'm on the TRSS and do I feel annoyed that someone else with less than a third of my experience is being paid £5000 more than me per annum and bonded for 3 years instead of 5.....hell yes.
Do I have a leg to stand on....No of course not.
They are not a charity and will definatly not give away money if they do not legally need to, to think any other way is niave.
I have a contract between myself only and Easy. I sighned it knowing full well what the deal was at a time when the market was different. a bit like fixing your mortagage rates for five years only to find the interest rates drop...tough!
Its rubbish but its life...there is absolutly no way Easy will ever pay back or change my contract before its 3 more years are up.
Options? Stay and get over it or leave.....
Our choice.
And time to command is not 5 years, Its far less that that.
Quattro