It's quite simple really
It's quite simple really, we want more than 1 night a week to enjoy gigs/dinners out with the trouble and strife or just to chill out with a beer and friends in the pub because guess what Jim - some of us would like to have a life outside Flybe...
We want a salary commensurate with our experience and other operators of similar aircraft. The average year 1 F/O salary of a Q400 driver across various Q400 operators is as follows
Austrian Arrows E37800
Augsberg E36200
Luxair E55200
Air Baltic E34500
Wideroe E52000
Flybe E28275
As can be seen our pay is massively uncompetitive with directly comparable operators and the rosters - finishing 11pm Friday night and having to get up at 4am Monday morning are beyond appalling. The Captains pay compares equally unfavourably.
I've yet to fly with anyone who doesn't intend to support a strike. People have quite literally had enough of the pot noodles, nutri-grain bars for breakfast, the lack of any kind of reasonable lifestyle and the relentless and exhausting barrage of 4 sector days stretching to the horizon with only a one and a half day weekend to break them up. Couple that with pay scales that would humiliate a lorry driver and you have a recipe for a Summer of discontent.