In line with TCs comments (as usual waiting, watching & striking with traditional venom), I was talking to a train company manager last night.
{Note to self, is TC looking to drive a bus now?}
Typical pay rates for driving "normal" trains average £38.5k, plus overtime, which they can't avoid. Eurostar = £50k for 35hr week
I know we cart passengers around but are we now expected to equate pilotage with land-based public transport? I believe the Filton team have to work more than their contracted hours anyway - without overtime, I'd imagine!
I wonder if one of the most mis-guided decisions in Police aviation (IMHO) will ever come back to bite the bum of the, otherwise predjuicially-interested, person who made it?
