I've been watching this thread for a while now and finally MaxT here has hit on it! There's nothing in writing so, for the moment, there's NOTHING! I think it was knotloud who spotted the management w*nkers posting here in a vain attempt to get us all to like what is still just a PROPOSAL from AAB.
IF, it comes about, it is a miserable increase which will do nothing to help this company expand into the future. The cries from our management posters here to 'like or leave' will become a reality. It's a pilot's market at the moment for those with mobile passports.
You may all be interested to know that the ground staff, "granted" a pay increase and housing increase, were emailed not long after the announcement and told that the rent increase was not to be 'assumed'. All staff would be notified individually, in due course, as to what their respective rental assistance would be.
Both the rental assistance and travel allowance for pilots will disappear in due course as we are all forced into company accommodation. So the company gives and the company takes away.
It would have been a REAL pay increase if the rental money had gone towards salary increase and flight pay had been done away with so that all of us were on level pegging.
And let's not forget; there's still no sick leave, real LoL, retirement benefits and what about pilots with over 5 year's service?
Another opportunity to make this a good airline has gone begging. Pity.
GB