DOUG the head wrote: Remember Norman, it's all relative as you yourself work for yet another 'two bit low-cost airline' which exploits it's employees with cadet/TRSS schemes, seasonal commands, lousy crew food, no private health care, pay for your own uniform, direct entry captains (like you Norman!), different contracts for different bases, and the list goes on.
Just to correct things a bit -
no private health care - its available if you want to pay for it, we have the choice to do what we want with our salary this way;
pay for your own uniform - errrr, we have never had to do this! We had a tax free monthly allowance, stopped in jan tho and we will all be issued with uniforms in december;
DEC- dont all airlines when there is expansion and no suitable FO's;
Different contract for different COUNTRIES - NOT bases - to reflect local and national employment law, if you knew any facts, you will of known that they are very good overseas contracts.