I cannot believe what I am reading! If it is really true that GSS only pay their Captains £54k and F/Os £34k for driving 744Fs around the world for 22 days a month then I am totally amazed. I earned more than that (not even allowing for inflation) 20 years ago for doing much less.
For example, in the mid-1980s I was being paid USD5500 basic per month (tax-free) for sitting in the left seat of a DC-10. The going rate for 747 captains at that time was USD7500 per month. (For the money-minded among you, the rate at that time was around USD1.10 = £1).
I suppose the GSS management (like the Grinning Pullover) relies upon the poverty-stricken ex-BA guys who feel the overwhelming need to top up their niggardly BA pensions in order to make ends meet thereby lowering the ante for the rest of our aviation community.
I am in the fortunate position of still being in a well-paid and very interesting job. I get paid a hell of a lot more than a GSS 744F captain and I have to say that they are depressing the industry.
Why, oh why, can't they just retire gracefully? They want us all to love them while they are with BA and give us !!!!! if we don't support their ideals. They keep telling us that what they have got is what the rest of us should be aspiring to and demanding our support.
Then they retire at 55 and prostitute themselves for some pocket money. Can't they see that they are screwing things for the new generatation?