So how big is that BRK salary really, then?
If you fly 900 hours (which is quite a lot as every airline pilot who has been flying for a while can assure you) that will give you:
900x124,35 Euros=111.915,00 Euros gross.
111.915x0,65=72.745 euros per annum after tax (optimistic tax rate).
From that amount you have to subtract:
Uniform, medical, sim training twice a year, parking permit, health insurance, ID cost, etc.
72745:12=6062 euros a month after tax.
Now the average pound/euro exchange rate is 1.40 I believe, but let's be generous again and take today's exhange rate of 1.18035:
6062:1.18035=5136 pounds per month.
Bear in mind that in order to enjoy this fantastic salary you have had to: PAY to apply to be hired, PAY for your type rating (unless you hold a 737NG rating; a 737 300-900 rating doesn't count) to the tune of 38000 euros, PAY the application fee for a command upgrade, etc.
Bear also in mind that you can forget about the aforementioned BRK hourly rate, because it is already extinct as it was deemed too generous for the present market conditions.
Instead it is heading towards the 90 euro per hour mark if I am not mistaken.
Anybody keen to apply?
Didn't think so.
By the way as an aside if you haven't figured it yourself already, Leo IS MOL himself and Shady IS his management pilot bulldog.
Still wonder why they are so poisonous against our union?