Iver,
That's a difficult and personal question. I can't give you a straight awnser to that one. And I know too little about the likes of EZY/RYR.
I think that doing nightstops isn't all that bad. But that depends on your home situation as well. I've heared stories about EZY guys/girls making loooong days, starting early and finishing late, day in day out. Basically eat/sleep/fly/etc... Our captains do all the nasty long shifts as they are short of captains.
We do a max of 4 sectors a day right now. Some trips are long days but some are really relaxed with only 2 sectors. Just a there and back
The best thing we have is our Schedueling agreement. It's our protection and safeguard. We can't be tossed around, everything is layed down and we work to that agreement. Period! Something you'll never find at EZY/RYR.
Everything is paid for. (medical/training/expenses/food on board etc.) Stafftravel is good as well. (slightly slimmer form than BA mainline)
When you don't fly you'll get your basic pay. I didn't fly for nearly 3 1/2 months after signing my contract and before starting my training but still got basic pay. It's changed a bit from this month onwards but it's till behind inflation. Hopefully this was just phase I of the negotiations. Pay is not good though.
Everyone hopes we'll be fully BA mainline but I don't see that happening. As a foreigner in the UK (
) I think the BA mentallity is to blame for that. (verrrrrryyyyy cautious, but that's a different subject and I'm gonna be shot for saying that
)
Happy flying!