Cyclic,
Dont get me wrong, Im not bitter about someone younger/ less experienced etc getting more money than me, as you say its a fact of life. But, what really grips my #### is the fact that if you join up as O Aircrew, you get better flying pay even though for more than half, they are on the same ac as NCO aircrew whoes flying pay sucks by comparrison.
Also now we have these PA, for whom flying pay is now pensionable, its an insult to all other aircrew who work just as hard, and on the same ac! Surely no one should be penalised on the basis that they have not done x years and waived all rights to promotion! Hell if they offered that to me, I would take it.
Also isnt it the government who are bleating on about how much the OAPs cost to look after? Well after this they are going to be a few bob (euros whatever) short in a couple of years when they start to pension off a lot of these doddery old gits <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">
just a little afterthought.....