Nice work Mancu
If our pay rises were based on “what the company can afford”, we wouldn’t have got anything last year, this year, or next year. How exactly would YOU determine “what the company can afford” ? Its not about “what the company can afford”, its about what the market (any market) demands, and the Pilot market is demanding massive increases in pay world-wide. Let JMC plead poverty to OPEC when crude oil rises …. get my drift ?
By the way, did you know that JMC has one of the lowest Pilot cost bases in the UK I.T. industry ? No one is on more than year 8, JMC has the lower F/O scale that most other carriers don’t, CTC cadets in abundance, pilots worked to the limits of the law, want me to keep going ?
If one Pilot resigns, how much money do you think it costs to train his replacement from interview to unsupervised line flying ? If you are a manager you’ll know the answer. You’ll also remember the Air 2000 experience wont you ? Is that what you want ?
Yes we know where the door is, but ballot box first matey !