Housing Allowance or Sector Pay Compensation
Hi Flex,
It is called a housing allowance, but is used to compensate for less sectors?
But in that case, what about the bases in CLJ, SOF, KBP & TSR that all do similar numbers of sectors, i.e. 30 or so a month?
In CLJ, for example, a case was made for the "housing allowance or sector compensation" to be paid. It was declined.
If it were a true sector pay compensation, then all bases with similar sector lengths should be entitled to it and not just BBU. At least that's my view.
Either way, the housing allowance dated back to a time when Wizz could not get pilots to go to BBU (about 2007 or 2008, I believe). Since then, the company is inundated with unemployed pilots and believes it can do away with such a scheme. Rightly, or wrongly, thats their view.
I'm not saying I agree with removing it - but I can see why the company have done so.
In the bigger picture of things, it's unjustified.
If BBU is unliveable without the allowance, why not try another base? GDN would perhaps provide a nice mix of sectors and nicer architecture. And there are significantly fewer wild dogs running about.