Mr Angry
Over a year wannbee you'll be surprised that your hours equat to probably less than a 37.5 week. I personally think the current 5/4/5/3 is the best thing i've seen in my time in the UK Airline Industry.
You may be an exception, I don't know, but if you do work late in an office you must notice the exodus at "clocking off" time. Nice to be able to work at home sometimes as well, I can't.
Also I actually have no complaints about 5/4/5/3. I quite enjoy it. But if we can do 900 hours per year on 5/4/5/4 or even 4/6/4/9 or whatever, what is the problem there. We did not set the max hours requirement. I am sure that passengers would not like to fly knowing that the pilots have been working excessive hours. I used to work in an office and I did do more hours that I currently do for less days off. But there have been times that I shouldn't have driven home afterwards, and have even made mistakes because I was tired. Fortunately for me, making a mistake because I was tired didn't endanger lives.
And Clara, OMG.
How much do you think pilots are worth. Like any job, we all want more. Nobody would start negotiations with the company by saying "actually we don't want a payrise, we have enough".
True, a lot of the time we sit there reading the paper in the cruise, but sometimes we do have to work hard. Maybe you saw something in the news recently about an airbus, similar to ours, going for a swim. How many dead?
None. All thanks to the professionalism of a great pilot. He probably reads the paper in the cruise as well.
Chesley Sullenberger I think his name was. How much is he worth?