1/ the tax free element of the flight pay is unlikely to be as high as that which the pilots achieve.
Sadly true, after the exercise we went through requiring receipts a couple of years ago BASSA failed to engage with HMRC and thus failed to negotiate the greater tax savings that a certain other Association managed.
When the BASSA board were quizzed over this lack of negotiation they merely replied that 'you can't negotiate with the taxman'.
Another winner from LM and Co.