Flex
Hi Flex,
I don't think you are being entirely accurate in your analysis:
1) you still have the €1200 per month until September, and then it is being reduced by €100 each month for a year until it no longer features. Therefore, you have not yet "suffered" as another poster says;
2) there are commuters in both TGM and CLJ. I was one for starters, there are others. In fact, CLJ is full of commuters - Hungarian commuters perhaps, but commuters nonetheless. Therefore, commuters are nothing special in BBU. Admittedly, there are lots of you, but it's your choice, not the company's to make you stay there. As I've said before, move base if you think it'll be unmanageable after the housing allowance disappears;
3) an apartment in CLJ is approximately €400 per month, plus bills for 80sq metres. Many of you live, or lived, in serviced apartments near BBU which were about €600 per month. Therefore, hardly expensive. In fact a lot less than I paid in KTW;
4) I agree totally with moving to flying hourly pay. I put this to both the HFO and Fleet Captain. The idea was not accepted as being workable. I disagree with their analysis, but could not get them to change their views, and;
5) Pilots in BBU do not fly only 26 SHORT sectors a month. It's all long or medium. Still less than other bases, but not so dramatic as you point out. For Capptains, the pay gap is less, but I admit for FO's it's awful;
My issue was not one of "BBU should not have such extra pay", rather one of "all bases with low sectors should be equally compensated".
Do you guys really think I am some kind of Wizz Air management sympathiser? I had some huge arguments with the HFO over the way things were being done in Wizz Air. I worked myself to the edge of exhaustion trying my best to improve what I could. Ultimately, I realised things would never improve. I left.
Wizz Air is not making money. The investors want returns. I can't see things improving in the current climate - and the only thing people can, or will, do is leave for better things.