Its not 5 or 6%, which in itself is far less than it should be (circa 15% year 1 then another 5% every year for 5 years and we may just be on par).
Seemingly the big focus of discussion was on the lates to earlies issue. Frankly, in my opinion, this should very much have been a second discussion and probably concerns less the 10% of the pilot workforce, the other 90% would rather get paid properly first for the way we work now surely i.e like our friends in other airlines, and deal with the shift roster pattern later.
If the talk is of a 3 year deal then we are pi55ing in the wind with a 6% deal as this will be out dated and below the cost of living in 6 months anyway.
A post on 'flyingbe' indicates that the interest rates are forecast to rise to 8% soon. I hope he's wrong because Im screwed on this meagre salary.