stansdead, let's get down to business.
Condoms? Only mentioned once, not "keep going on about it": do keep up, dear.
Stop whining about Ryanair and it's perfect Boeings and take a long, hard look through the rose tinted mist of your BALPA card: Thomson making pilots redundant, bmi making pilots redundant, baby making pilots redundant, easyjet shafting cadets and FOs - each and everyone a BALPA recognised airline.
Now BALPA can't stop market forces, nor it appears can they have any influence in stopping redundancies: in that case, why let them interfere with the running of the company in the first place? Why let them insist on expenses that cripple your airline and limit the flexibility the management have to manage the operation. Recall the old NATO doctrine? Flexibility is the key to air power!
Your easy FOs won't be making £1200 a month: the figure quoted was £130 a day, if the work is available, and how much training are they going to get? Cabin crew basic training normally lasts at least 6 weeks and then they have to do supernumerary flights then line training flights: easyjet planning to subsidise that cost are they for 1 month's work?
Anyway our cabin crew get paid more than £1200 a month and our Cadet FOs get paid during line training from the day the safety pilot is released, 35€ an hour until FLC then 55€ an hour, so for a 75 hour month, just over 4000€ for the first month's pay: not bad money for an FO with a 300 - ish hours.
Truly stan, the only people who are boring anybody are the BALPA hardliners who can't see the wood for the trees: you keep paying your subs to keep them in lunches, company cars and C class travel.
The pilots that have been let down, yet again, by BALPA, and are out of work or being measured for their CC uniform, will be taking a more realistic look at what they haven't had for their money.
askfap
At least they're getting HOTAC, if and when RYR ever adopt this scheme the hapless cadets will find themselves "camping out" in the car park with some of their future flight deck colleagues.....
FR cadets are filling the RHS of the shiny Boeings: and those in training at the moment will be filling the RHS of the 55 new ones arriving next year.
Do keep up.