JMC excellent pay and conditions
Most of us in JMC are exasperated with the wining and whinging of many of you pilots. Your reaction to the 3.5% pay rise is beyond belief. It is as much as the company can afford after an expensive expansion in a difficult and competitive market. Why should you have a higher pay rise than the rest of us. Do you work harder than all the other people in the company.
Take a long hard look at what you have. Compare your salaries to the Balpa paylist. You have a guarenteed incrementalpayrise and we dont. You have a good pension, PHI, loss of licence, health insurance, a good hourly rate, subsidisel holidays and very cheap 48 hour deals. You have the best job security in our business.
Those of you who have joined us in the last 2 years must have short memories. Think about your previous pay and conditions . Do you remember the poor operational standards, poor Ops and crewing support and the lack of career prospects. Why did you join us and not Virgin or British Airways.
Those of you from Caledonian and Airworld gladly accepted large payrises when you joined Flying Colours. How many of you were rejected by Air2000 or Flying Colours and yet were put on the same pay scale.
Those of you who joined us at the beginning of Flying Colours have forgotten the worry of late summer 1998 and now you are in a well paid secure job with excellent extra benefits. Most of you have been promoted, sometimes several times. Each time you accepted a pay rise. Would you have been advantaged like this if you had stayed at Air2000. What would be your pay and conditions if you had stayed.
Wino you continue to complain about this management team. You know nothing of JMC and Airworld. We are the most innovative and dynamic team in our business. You were a Ryan pilot and just look at the way we have managed and improved that deal. We have expanded our airline 6 times and taken on 2 fialin airlines on the way. We turned those airlines into punctual, efficient and profitable companies before merging them into JMC. The Airworld managers and directors were fired up by Thomas Cook after an independant audit. They ran a small company poorly and were incapable of running a large company well. Did you know the pilots had summer only contracts, junior pilot grades, 5 crew per aircraft and dubios crewing practices. Hardly a good employer Wino. Ask yourself where are those people now- disappeared into obscurity.
Remember Wino cream floats to the top and Darrall tells me you voted with your feet. We have massively improved the Ryan deal with greatly increased pay, full licences and a 2 weeks on 2 weeks off deal.
Those of you who think that you will get a better deal from Condor just talk to your colleagues who worked for them. Ask them why the union was allowed to eject the british pilots.
Do yourself a favour andstop whining and whinging. Face up to reality and look at the good career you have with JMC. If you dont want to be part of the team you know where the door is and Adrian has a stack of applications.
Mancu