Down the pub, at the wedding reception, on the fairway - it may be tacky to talk specific pay details because the lesser well paid members of the conversation might be embarrassed. Everyone gets that. An anonymous Internet forum where nobody has met one another and never will is utterly different.
Rome based easyJet skippers take home €9,000 a month and bonus month is over €20,000. I've seen the payslips and wondered why I don't join them often enough..
All this is but a few short years away from all the Flexicadet pilots. Yeah it would be better to be a senior BA/Air France skipper. But hey, it could be a lot lot worse. My first Chief Pilot told me one day on line training that there is no perfect airline job and he had seen a lot of pilots make themselves miserable believing there was. It was good advice. Probably the best I ever received.
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