It is dead easy - details of the deal are at this link:
BALPA - Membership
If you are happy to join, just fill-in the form here:
https://www.balpa.org/About-BALPA/Me...oin-BALPA.aspx
I genuinely hope many Ryanair pilots do join, and wish you all the best of luck in the battles ahead. Incidentally, I bumped into an ex-Ryanair pilot in the crewroom today who is retraining on the Airbus - he is delighted to be with us. He commented how great Ryanair was until 5 years' ago and after that it went downhill. Coincidentally, if you speak to many easyJet pilots, they will tell you the exact opposite - easyJet was a nightmare until 5 years' ago and now it is a great place to be. I have no embarrassment in saying that the single biggest factor in that has been the involvement of BALPA and the fact that we have 70%+ membership. That will not be enough to fend off a really concerted attack on our terms and conditions by our bosses - but if that happens I would expect a big take-up of union membership. It would be so much easier to avoid that and go for BALPA membership now!