My friend and his wife are both BA crew. One is old contract, joined early 90s, the other is new contract joined around 99. They are on married rosters, fly together on WW, live in a reasonable house in one of the more affordable suburbs of Maidenhead. Two cars, a couple of holdays each year and are saving for their wedding. Doesn't sound like the hard luck story so many proclaim here. He even has time and money for a round of golf, both at home and downroute, and plays rather well. I once dated a new contract stewardess for some time. Thats how I now what a new contract monthly take home pay looks like. I know lots of crew on a social basis from when I worked at a small base, and regularly stop to chat in Compass with crew friends from my short haul days.
You see Anti-Ice, I know all about what you earn, how many sectors you work, how many hours per year you fly, and thats why I can come on here and state facts. Thats right, facts. You and most of your colleagues can only resort to attempting to ridicule these facts and post lots of emotional outpourings in an attempt to obscure the truth. Which, coincidentally, is also the way BASSA work. It's much easier for you to stick your head in the sand and accuse anyone who criticises you of being anti-crew, having a god complex etc etc than to argue your case. Only a couple of posters have the nouse to look at the facts of the case and say many of your agreements are unjustifiable. That is different from saying indefensible, but I don't expect you to understand the subtlety.