Guv -
I get a US major airline wages AND profit sharing. In fact, I should get another profit sharing check from the management pirates at Atlas Air Cargo too -- the one they stole from me last year. The pilots finally won their lawsuit for Atlas withdrawing profit sharing just because the pilots unionized - illegal under US labor law.
ex-expat is right. Brit pilots taken as a whole are push-overs, when it comes to dealing with management -- especially BA. If they let management wet-lease 2 400's, they might as well contract out the whole lot. Guess they've never heard of a scope clause.
BTW, pilot salaries don't kill airlines, management buffoonery and fuel costs kills airlines.
Did you pick-up those DAL L-1011's yet? Still looking for your startup airline, to . . . well . . . "startup."