Starting salary at Air Transat is much better than at Air Canada about 70000$ 1st year FO (about 92000$ 5th year FO)+ perdiems, profit sharing, bonus for night flying etc. It is not surprising that salary is so high because people start on heavy airplane right away and Transat hires people with a lots of experience 5000 hrs + for the most part. Also if they didn't pay well a lot of pilots with A330 type rating in their pocket would leave Transat for well paying jobs in Asia or for Air Canada. It is a win win situation for everybody, pilots make good money and company have good pilots that stay there for life (senior PIC-s makes up to 180000$ + perdiems etc...) They work hard for their company but they are well paid. Everybody is happy and it is a career company so almost nobody leaves for Air Canada or elsewhere. And by the way Flexable the salaries from airlinepilotcentral.com are outdated. They are 3 years old and are better now. Everybody I know there likes their job…