I had to make comment on Max's comment that you should join Air 2000 for a better deal. NO! You would be far worse off than any of the other airlines mentioned here, other than that we have a higher basic than RyanAir's current/ old deal.
We have virtually nothing "guaranteed" in our contract other than CAP371. We do have a "gentleman's agreement" which is meant to take care of things on the rosters but it is totally NOT enforceable and if it suits the company they throw it out the window.
An example of working in summer. Work a week, have a single day off (late finish before) then work another week. Lots of long flights, generally 2 sectors, no reason to the times you get - mix of earlies, lates, nights. We get hundreds of standbys. We usually get 8 days off per month, occasionally 9 or 10. Any day where they have nothing for you to do they give you an 8 hour standby.
The basic pay for FOs (both fleets) is currently £37,945. Sector pay is £2.21 per hour, payable for nightstops too, which don't happen very often. I reckon we average around £300-400 per month in summer (with a couple of nightstops), around £100-200 in winter.
We get basic private health, £60k loss of licence, leave is a lottery, we get no more for working nights, we have lots of night flights in summer that finish at 5,6,7am.
Earlies start from around 3.30am onwards.
I have had loads of roster changes, I think the recent record is 5 changes for one day, although usually it is fairly stable.
I often ended up doing early start followed by night flight and vice versa.
Also, we are meant to finish by 9pm before a day off, starting 9am after a day off. But we often get rostered a late finish or early start with a "memo" from rostering saying thanks very much for doing it. No option.
Lots of driving around in hire cars.
A quick survey of the pilots I fly with suggested average FO hours of around 70-80 hours a month in summer, 40 in winter, Captains up to 100 hours a month in summer, 40 in winter. Average hours in a year somewhere between 600-800.
We get paid more if we do more than 800 hours a year, but they keep an eye on it so you don't go over it. They just use others to cover your flights. Also, any contracts abroad don't count towards the hours total.
Finally, I just want to say that to give you an idea of the company, the company didn't want union recognition but agreed to ballot the pilots on it.
One management pilot even sent everyone an e-mail basically advising them to vote against the union.
In the end the majority of pilots voted for BALPA recognition. That was in August. Although other airlines have had an agreement in place within a month, we are now in January and still the company are avoiding the issue.
So if I were you I would have a good look at the "low cost" airlines.
To balance it out, time to command is good, we have a fairly good pension and we get some free shares after 3 years employment.
Work days off, get nothing for it.
Concessions, standard IDs for scheduled airlines, OK on our own company products if you are booking last minute and going standby.
A few people have left recently and a few have applied to other airlines. Recently both Captains and FOs leaving, going to airlines including Atlas and BA. But no major exodus.