Camelhair, which airlines are we talking about? Vueling, Sky Europe, Wizz, Air Berlin?
What disingenuosness is this? You seek to compare fiddly unprofitable regional outfits against ryanair. The peers of ryanair are the major carriers, the likes of easyjet and airlines such as southwest. Comparing like for like, fr lag seriously behind any of the above. And the way things are going, FR will soon pay less than the airlines you mention. in fact they do already in some categories of crew.
And let's add it all up, because we all know that you get paid nothing these days
You're quite right, in ryanair you get paid virtually nothing for everything.
your basic is as low as it can go, with flight pay putting money in your pocket for working.
Except with so many new FO's, the ryanair FO's are getting little flying, thus their pay packets are decimated. Sure the captains are flying, but for less money than most other western European FO's.
Why did the EZY pilots move to FR if there is such a difference in salary?
EZy was once less. Now it is more. And it is guaranteed. And you have respect. And the operation is a hell of a lot safer than ryanairs (and before you bleat that this is not the case, why not read all the FR incident reports of the last couple of years, then read all the EZY's. Oh wait, there are none for EZY).
And what about roster patterns?
Well, EZY is 5-4,5-3 (correct me if I'm wrong) with a full annual leave allocation. RYR is 5-4,5-4 with about half your annual robbed to make up the 4th day (which, like so many RYR practices, is illegal). jeez, which sounds better to me?!
Far be it for me to act as an apologist for FR
Good, then you should be willing to establish the facts before defending FR.