Betty girl,
"You know, the pay does not affect me. All I said was that it is low and it is.
£1100 before tax is low and that is if you hardly spend anything downroute while you are away on food.
Plus at LGW, which consider themselves bad off.
1.) they earn more than 11,000
2.)Their hourly rate is more and
3.) they get a breakfast alowance on top at alot of their destinations which New Fleet won't."
A couple of corrections, as your post isn't quite accurate.
1) Some LGW have a lower basic than £11K
2) LGW hourly rate is the same as MF.
3) Our breakfast "allowance" is actually a meal. In some hotels, it's breakfast, like it or lump it. Some hotels (mainly short haul) give us a voucher with a value of a set amount. One hotel (
AFAIK), gives us a daily "allowance" which we can use for any incidentals during our stay. We don't get cash/money - ever.
I just wanted to clarify this, as wrong info isn't helping.
What we at LGW have that MF won't get, is:
Overtime (extra pay per hour when duty goes beyond 10.5 hrs)
Overnight allowance (the vast sum of £10 per night....)
Personally, I think there will be plenty of applicants. It's up to them (at least the successful ones) to decide whether they want the job or not and whether they can survive on the pay. Performance related pay is a genius invention, which will sort the wheat from the chaff easily.
IIRC, Singapore Airlines (or is it Thai?), give their CC a 2 year contract. If you're not exeptional, that's it. If you're brilliant, you get another 2 year contract. I know this can't be done here due to the law, but it does make sense as it keeps them on their toes, so to speak.