Before we start feeling sorry for those new cadets lets just state facts and not opinions.
1. On an average month these lads and lassies are earning about 2.5k-3.5k after tax. A lot of these guys who are moaning as they are working hard are taking home 4.5k after tax!!!
2. They are getting permanent contracts after 2 seasons, if based in Europe the F/O salaries are almost on par with UK captain’s salary (which is upsetting the UK skippers at the min, understandably so)!
3. The charters have more often than not only offered summer only contracts so whets the difference.
4. What about the poor turbo prop guys only taking home 2k a month if there lucky!!
5. Yes over the past year there as been a mass recruitment not only from CTC but oxford/Parc/ATP and when you recruit mass numbers like 200 plus than the law of averages will say you will have one or two more failures than when you recruit in smaller numbers.
6. We are Pilots therefore we will never be happy and we believe the grass is always greener!!