So much disinformation in your post Cowhorse that it's hard to give a sensible reply. You suggest that pilots get kicked out after 500hrs. Not true: contracts are 5 years renewable, so it is effectively a permanent job in which you average about 800 hours per year. I'm nibbling the legal maximum this month and probably will until the autumn when things will calm down a bit. Pilot's don't leave the company unless they are moving on to another job (which for them would be a positive move otherwise they wouldn't do it) or they're retiring. The reason you get FR pilots commenting on threads like this is to counter some of the tiresome fallacies that get thrown around. Sure, there are plenty of things that could be better for pilots at the company, but to be fair it's a pretty good flying job especially for someone new to the industry. The exodus of senior FOs and junior Captains to BA and Emirates is testament to that.
Once again a thread with a straightforward question about Ryanair gets subverted into drivel.
