Emirates Capt Salary
you think that virgin blue pay bad!!
Try this and dont factor tax into it!! because at the end of the day you are living at home in your home country not in the FRUGGN sand pit!!
CAPTS are paid 121 300 AUD per year. Overtime is based on 78 or 76 hrs or above depending if its 30 or 31day month!! at the measly rate of 140 aud an hour. So Virgin Blue (yes i know there is taxation ) still pays its CAPTS 25 to 30k per year more than EMIRATES pays its CAPTS AND 40 to 50 percent more on overtime rates!! and receiving overtime having worked ten hours less than EMIRATES pilots.
CAPTS are treated like packhorses at EMIRATES and are expected to in robot like fashion do a 40 hour 9day trip to OZ have a day and a half off to recover before heading north to EUROPE.We are THE ONE OF MOST productive pilot groups in the world.
So i realize that your EBA is not that great but at least you can sort of negotiate!!
OHH as a by thought 8 days off a month THATS IT!!
Again there is no official income TAX YET but hidden tax in DUBAI is horrendous .
At the end of the day EMIRATES pays its pilots significantly less than most major airlines around the world (GROSS) which is why this company WILL ALWAYS with the current pay and conditions make VAST profits on the backs of us all!!
Last edited by BIKKERDENNAH; 13th Nov 2006 at 08:10.
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