Air Arabia - all you need to know about it (threads merged)

[sand-dweller]

It depends whose spin on the pay you listen to.

Management have been good at changing the way the pilots are paid each year to make the raise look larger. In a month with full vacation there has been zero increase for all pilots, and for new Captains the base pay has decreased by 10% since the company first started. Also, originally the company added the yearly service increase to the base pay, but when they figured out that would increased any bonus or the amount of Gratuity they had to pay, they reversed the base pay increase and came up with a “Seniority Allowance”. And, the flight pay system introduced to replace overtime, pays at a rate only 50% of other carrier in the region.

The Chief Pilot put out a Memo show the pay raise was 18%, but that was only for one month when the average for the year was around 7% but depended on when you took vacation and how fast you did your 900 hrs.