First post for me.
EZY a career airline?!?! EZY well paid?!?! Guess it depends on who you compare with.... Not trying to slag easyJet off in any way, actually quite happy here and its better then lots of deals being offered in Europe today.
Check out the "folder" that was sent out by BALPA a few months ago where they compared our payrates with others in the UK - Monarch, First C, BA short haul, Thomson etc etc. If you ONLY look at pay, its a waste of time working for EZY if you look anything beyond 5 years. That is NOT what I call a career airline...Being loyal pays off in a career airline.
When the base in MXP was opened the company tried to shaft us by lowering T&Cs on local contracts without ANY initial communication with BALPA. That was stopped and some of us had a positive feeling about future contract negotiations (pay, roster, leave etc etc) in that from now on things would at least go via BALPA BEFORE any changes were imposed. I was being somewhat more realistic about the whole thing and warned that just because we now had a new management, better communication between the company and BALPA, things would still be dealt with in a very business minded way also in the future....after all, management is there to make money, nothing else...thats their job. Speaking to some of my colleagues I found that they thought that my position was prob a bit too negative and that "things would get much better now"...
Madrid.
Pay negotiations.
New Command contracts.
