If you're a Brookfield contract FO what is to stop Ryanair from putting your hours, and therefore your earnings, down to 200hrs a year in a couple of years time when you're on the expensive hourly rate and replacing you with another FO on the low intro rate whose just handed over a bug type rating cheque?
Oh, Nothing.
The Ryanair renumeration isn't bad. Its nothing special when you deduct all the deductions, count the missing benefits and pay your taxes. Talk of making £50k as a new FO are barking.
And remember. You have no permanent contract, very little notice, no minimum hours/wages and no fixed base.
You're O Leary's bitch. Watching some of you dance a jig at the fact veers between curious and sickening. It is a job though, which if you're £70k+ in and watching your ratings expire is the best option in the rock/hard place calculations..
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