OApilot, might have known you wouldn't get the math! I'd guess (and I could easily be wrong) that you are oxford grad and thought it wise to blow 75k on a integrated course! I had frozen ATPL owing 10k, and you question my math???
VJW, you are indeed quite right - you are wrong.
Paid nowhere near that for my fATPL, and owed nothing at the end of it (paid for by me not Bank of Mum and Dad before you ask). Add to that, never paid for any of the three ratings I have, and would leave flying before doing so.
So, guess I win the willy waving contest.
Anyway, you and I are both lucky. The majority of FOs joining FR or BE will have substantial debts so by the time you've factored in all of the additional expenses listed above, that FR and Brookfield impose on their employees, the difference in disposable income is smaller than your superior mathematical mind might think.
You are right though, BE crews should be paid more and permanent lates to earlies rostering is plain shabby.
oap
PS do you
really have to pay a fee to be paid.
MOL is a truly class act. The Frenchman still has a lot to learn about ancilliary revenue streams
