Just in case anyone thinks the pay reduction BEFORE YOU EVEN JOIN is fiction or just typical pilot gossip, an excerpt from an email sent to a prospective joiner:
Dear Candidate,
We are writing to congratulate you again on your success in our flydubai
Pilot Selection Program. We appreciate your continued interest in our
small but rapidly growing family and look forward to seeing you in Dubai
once again.
We are also writing to advise you of modifications to our Terms and
Conditions for pilots. The revised compensation plan is attached for
your review. While the overall compensation scheme represents an
approximate 10% reduction to the program presented to you during your
interview, we feel it accurately reflects the reduced costs associated
with living and working in Dubai.
Wow! Usually they wait until AFTER you join to start the raping! The next "Advise of modifications" to your Terms of Service and the contract BOTH PARTIES SIGN, will be a memo released to you via email after you join. Usually on a Thursday afternoon, in typical cowardly fashion. At least at this point you still have the chance to tell them to FOXTROT OSCAR!!
Good god how desperate do you have to be to work for these clowns? I know, I know global crisis meltdown economic sky falling etc ad nauseum...but seriously...unless you're getting a gun stuck in your face weekly like our good colleagues from Joburg, in which case I understand the desire to move along...??? WTF??