PPrune is such a fantastic website full of excellent info and it's spoiled by constant ANTAGONISM! It's pathetic. Rainboe and NSF - whether working for easyjet or not, you seem to both be professionals, and as such should know that pouring sarcastic vitriol on an anonymous website is NOT the best use of your time.
I've just joined the industry, and very luckily I have a fab job in a really faltering market. For a brand new FO with relatively little experience, I'm getting good pay too. Personally, the Astraeus contract sounds
superficially a bit short on the long term job stability front, and lacks (IN MY OPINION) the image of a good ol' stable, long-term job. That's why I personally wouldn't go for it. The pay is also, it must be said, pretty poor.
But that's NOT to say that people shouldn't - there are far more people far less fortunate than myself and NSF who don't have jobs at all. The original post just wanted info on the contracts, not an argument.
And don't forget what doors to automatic said - BA pays its pilots most handsomely, with lots of priviledges and
apparent job stability, and is virtually p1ssing money away and asking its pilots to go to work for nothing.
See? Opinions on getting a job with certain airlines aren't really terribly useful. Just give the guy facts. (which unfortunately I don't have, 'cos I know little about Astraeus, apart from the fact that rock music bloke used to fly for them). You don't really need to even submit an opinion on the pay, (as I have done
), because the bloke can see whether that's enough to feed his kids and pay the mortgage. He doesn't need Rainboe and NSF bickering.
Let's just all be happy.
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