My point was that you could use the bags of spare time as an SO to work on other ways to boost your income just as the poster who wrote:
the only reason I am going to stay is I will be able to get enough out of the housing allowance to start a business back home.
....is using their money (instead of time) to boost their (future) income. There is very little difference in that and someone working on a lower salary with more time on their hands working on a second income. Most pilots sooner or later branch out into other lines of work whilst holding down their flying day job.
Think some people here have got the wrong end of the stick with what I was getting at, but I am aware that there are some strong feelings about the CEP scheme from existing CX pilots however it is not my intention to become involved in that one as it seems to just go round and round in circles, making this a very boring forum to be reading just lately. Seems a shame.
VFE.