Aloue - I have met cadets who have been asked to go on Brookfield contracts and are flying from various bases. This is due to their being too many FO's in Ryanair and the young guys were not getting their flying hours at STN. As cadets the pay is better on a contract.
Inveritas this is so close to being the statement of an apologist for Ryanair that it needs clarification. I say this in case you are so new that your position may be an
interpretation of yours based on innocence. Can I therefore ask you to just clarify the following points:
1. Did any of the guys you say were "asked" to go on Brookfield contracts tell you that they did so willingly? Or did they tell you that they were
forced to accept a Brookfield contract?
My answer:
all of them that I met went to Dublin reluctantly and
all said they were forced to take a contract having been employed on the basis of being a full-time employee.
2. How is the need to go to another base driven by having too many F/O's in Ryanair? Can you not "get your flying hours" at any base? Why do the F/O's who go to all other Ryanair bases go as full-time employees?
My answer: Ryanair are fighting a "war of oppression" against the Dublin pilots. Any pilot based in Dublin must suffer the same oppressive reduction in Terms and Conditions arbitrarily introduced by Ryanair. To try to get around this and to avoid the pilots newly based there obtaining "rights" as full-time employees the only option was to make them contrators.
The Dublin pilots resisted Ryanair's little ways and are being made to suffer - a Ryanair speciality. (The pilots may suffer now, but who will suffer most in the end is likely to be an entirely different matter. Let's just wait for the court cases and victimisation claims to click in later this year).
3. Who told you things have changed? Do you mean by this that Ryanair has had some kind of conversion and will start to behave reasonably?