Bull****, sorry, but in Italy in every company you start with 1 or 2 stripes, some dont even give you 3 stripes, you go from 2 to 4.
In france you get 2 stripes and the same for spain and other countries.
The only country I know so far were you have only 3 and 4 stripes is germany.
Only FA and Pursers get 1 or 2 stripes there.
once again this is not important,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, thousands of stripes, who cares?
I am spanish, I know what I am talking about. In spain there are 3 stripes and 4 stripes, in every companies. Fulstop.
I have a friend in CCM airlines, and 2 in transavia france, all of them told me in every french airlines, you start with 3 stripes and 4 once promoted captain.
...and the third stripe is important - its worth £10k a year
this is the
english style to make the company saving £10k a year on the new FO. In other words, this is not a pay increase, this is a worse pay in the biggining and normal pay afterwards, for the same job... We don't have that in latin countries
