I agree with everything that has been said so far...
I love flying the Dash (yes, I know!), and I think FlyBE are a good company with great people working for them...
But, the pay and lifestyle are the two biggest issues for me. And both of these are badly affecting my standard of life right now. The pay here is pretty minimal - and at the end of a good month of pay, I'm lucky if I can even save £50. Not only that, but the pay offer from the company was really nothing short of derisery - I wouldn't have minded too much if the company had said "No payrise this year", but to offer us a 0.3% payrise on top of annual increments is just disgusting. The 2% payrise would have been somewhere in the region of an extra £10 a month after tax, which was unexpected - but 0.3% is not worth bothering with at all.
With regards to lifestyle, I have been working a lot recently - many 6 day weeks and have only had 2 days off in between them, and straight into another 6 day week. The missus AD complains that when she sees me, I'm tired, grumpy, fed up, and has been threatening to leave me. I cannot continue with this incessant level of work at the moment. Then the issue of days off - I cannot believe that the company are playing such hardball with us on this. How can crew food be used as a bargaining chip against having extra days off?
In short, I'm actively searching for new jobs. I hear that a Q400 operator in Europe pays it's pilots nearly twice as much, and gives a better lifestyle, and whereas I've had a great time flying with FlyBE, it's high time the company accepted that if they want us to hang around, then they cannot continue to treat us like this.