TRLG
Quote- How can RBA justify a local pilot getting less pay than an expat pilot?
The same way it justifies its expats getting less than most other airlines for flying wide bodied jets. Because there are pilots willing to work for them on cr@p pay and conditions. Locals have never stood up to management so will never get any more. Those that realized this left to become expats themselves on higher pay. As rba management have always said, if you don’t like it f$%k off. But remember when you do, you will be just another foreigner working in another country. Don’t expect any special treatment for being Bruneian.
TRLG
Quote -WHy are the benchmark for a local to get command higher than expat?
They are not. Expat used to require 5000 hours, locals 4000 hours. Has that changed?
ARL
Quote - expat winging too much, if they don't like it, F****** leave the country. They know the deal in RBA and still winging, just can't believe it.
Strange, you agree with TRLGs whingeing. Stop winging yourself. You too have the option, if YOU don't like it, F****** leave the country.
But don’t expect any special treatment once you leave your parents home and go to a foreign country. You will just be another expat number.
Housing Allowance.
You dont get housing allowance because you live at home. Expats dont get housing allowance if they live in their own country. Expats do not see any of the housing allowance. It goes directly to the landlord and that corrupt so and so Has@@@@@@an.
Besides all Bruneians get GIVEN a plot of land or a house. Just put your name down. It may take a few years, but you be GIVEN one.
If you want a housing allowance move to the middle east.
Metro Man and Bananas are correct. Expats are paid more because they have to pay more to attract them.
What expat would move away from home, to have to put up with the BS of living in countries such as Brunei or the UAE? Brunei has little to offer except a tax free salary and that’s falling so far behind it’s not worth it for expats any more. Their basic infrastructure is way behind many countries the expats come from. Entertainment, internet, roads, bars, schooling, shops. H@ll you couldn’t even buy fresh meat or milk most the time there.
Also Bananas is correct, you are paid based on the level grade of a government worker (clerk or middle manager, Im not sure). Brunei’s govt workers are very well paid for the region considering the ACTUAL 3-5 hours they work a day. Just go down to the post office. Doors locked during opening hours, workers inside chatting and having makan.
You are paid for the same hours work as them. No more.
So RBA tries to make up for their very low salary with allowances. But be careful, these allowances can be stopped or reduced as they have in the past. The salaries and allowances were 15 years out of date when I left. They must be 20 years out of date now.
Have any locals written to management to voice their concerns. I believe the expats have. Don’t expect the expats to fight your battles.
Not saying it will do any good. That’s why so many expats are looking to leave.
They’ll be replaced with rishworth pilots with no jet time and all will continue, hopefully safely.