Originally Posted by haughtney1
Tut tut, do a bit of research Captjns....you will find with Ryanair that they employ on an individual basis....the basic salary you are correct about, however the sector pay is a major area where they take the p*ss. There are plenty of eastern bloc pilots currently flying for RYR that are not even recieving sector pay! (makes up around 50% of your take home). So if you are ill-informed enough to believe and post on a website what you think you know about RYR, perhaps you need to do a little more research
Or failing that, ask who ever told you about RYR to explain sector pay...sim costs..hotac away from base etc etc
Easyjet are a different matter, they do however only pay you 90% for the first 6 months.
As one that has to try to understand the multitude of accents in UK airspace..I for one would like some of the eastern block guys to attend a few english classes
Yes I heard stories of 14 people in a class with 14 different contracts... very confusing and leads to resentment. There is a contractor who funnels pilots to RYR where the pay is very standard with no arguments.
I know from conversations at local pubs that there were major issues about sector pay for new hired F/Os... 2 stripers. They were to recieve half sector pay for the first six months of flying after being checked out and full there after. Some of these guys had to have sit downs with certain people to get this matter resolved. They were saying that the new Director of Ground Ops in EGSS is an OK guy and got the matter resolved.
But on a whole the sector pay program sucks. From what I understand, they schedule the sectors about 5 to 10 minutes short of what that sector should actually be.
Yes I also agree the language is also a problem with not only RYR guys but Easyjet, Globespan... just to name a few.
At then end of the day... it appears to be a free market society in the airline industry in Europe, India and Asia as well. When one get fed up to the point they can't take it any more then they just move on to the next and so on.