Well I'm afraid I have integrity and a belief in my career I worked so hard to create over the last 15years. If people want to spend $40k to earn $70k and ignore the economics then good luck. Salary sacrifice makes it closer to $55-$60k NZ, thats around $45k AUSD. Thats a crap return on investment wouldn't you all agree? Try and live in Auckland on that!! Good luck, very very hard. Pretty much back in GA. As I've said, It's our industry. We own it. We don't have aircraft that fly passengers around the world by themselves. WE FLY THEM. If we band together and don't fly them then we all earn more than McDonalds wages. The only winners here are the management laughing all the way to the bank.
J* quote market rates as remuneration. It's not market rates. Current market rates for an FO are
AirNZ A320 $107k
Pac Blue $91k
Jetconnect $89k
We are talking about 180 seat jet here not an ATR. It's a friken joke!