Couldn't have said it better myself
G-SXTY and all the others - I couldn't have said it better myself. To be honest if they kept the lates to earlies but made the roster 5/3 fixed and added £10 000 to everyone's pay after 3 years and brought in loads of E-Jets with decent hot crew food I would stay forever as I suspect many others would.
We'd then be just below the industry average terms and conditions.
At my base I currently only know of one F/O who plans to stay, I know several Captains who already have apps in progress.
Re: salary expect to take home £1600/month F/O year 1, by year 3 that will be approx £1950. For Captains I gather year 1 equates to around £3200 take-home.
Desk-pilot