BIK... and SHRAGS. I don't think you have been given many of the facts. The pay rise is an aberation as they have a 7% diff between the ROSTERED hours and the ACTUAL hours flown. With the current pilot numbers and yearly flight hours across the company, no-one will get any overtime next year. NO-ONE!!!
So there is NO extra money!
That was red herring #1.
#2. They will give 10 days off in 28 which sounds great. But they are attached with all sorts of conditions, too numerous to go into here. So the lifestyle option is utter BS.
#3. Opportunity. There is NO international flying on the table. Only the Embraer. So Captains have NO opportunity at all while SOME of the F/O's can trade their life away for 4 years (with more conditions attached) and be bonded (in a company they have already spent years with) for the 4 year duration. Pathetic.
There are so many holes in this thing it is a joke. I like many others, smell a rat and don't trust these parasites as far as I could throw them. Watch this space I think!!