Narrow Runway, thanks for your pity although I assure you it is not needed.
Several flexicadets in their first year and with way less than 1,000hrs TT in their logbook have taken transfers to bases such as Paris and Rome and Madrid. Whereupon they have received a permanent contract and started taking home €4,000 a month. Roughly a Jet2 Captains wage for a guy in his first year as a junior First Officer.
I'd have ripped your arm off at the offer of a flexicrew contract when I was starting out. It ain't perfect and it ain't comfortable and it could be made better with a tiny bit of effort BUT as one of the few games in town its the one most worth playing. Thats a fact and not opinion.
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