Why cant the company come and ask us what we think we can personally do to help the company out?
I am personally prepared to operate the 767 on longhaul flights, with eurofleet allowances. that will increase our productivity and also take a bit of pressure of worldwide crew who stuggle to get leave when they want it.
I agree our 500 hours average a year is very low, so im willing to do as much as possible to increase that, but not for less money, harder for more, but not harder for less.
Im also willing to take part time, on a temp basis, but that temp basis will be untill the company returns to profit, at the end of the day it will, at some point return to 900 million plus profit a year, and when it was last year out wages wasnt an issue then, so i dont see why it should be now.
I do also agree we are ment to be a premium carrier, so we should be paid a premium, but there a few bad eggs that have quit in spirit years ago, but still pace the galley floor, its time for those to leave, as its crew like that, that are giving us all a bad name and people thinking we are undeserving of our wages.
Now for those of you who also think are wage is just far to high in comparison to other airlines, i would like to add that as a "new contract" EF crew member, who has previously worked for the UKs largest charter carrier for a number of years, and also a low cost carrier i would like to add my wage is usually on £300 a month more than my previous airlines, and i work similar hours now. so we arnt paid the huge amounts everyone seems to think.