To answer the posters question:
The maximum you could fly in a year is 900 hours. Therefore the maximum you could fly a month, on average, is 75 hours. with that you could expect maybe 4 standbys.
The maximum you could earn a month on average with CTC on the £42 per block hour rate is therefore £3825 per month BEFORE TAX. The maximum annual salary is therefore £45,900 BEFORE TAX.
The reality is somewhere between 650-750 hours a year for the 'lucky' flexicrewers who get kept on a full 12 months. So that's between 54 and 63 hours a month. Let's again add 4 standbys though you can't count on it and they play with them.
A realistic expectation is:
£2868 - £3246 a month BEFORE TAX. So maybe £2200 - £2500 AFTER TAX and NI.
So it's about £34000 - £39000 a year with no guarantees.
once you pass a threshold amount of EASYJET FACTORED HOURS you'll get a £10 per SCHEDULED block hour pay rise. So take the average hours per month, multiply by 10 and add that o the figures to see where you could be at.
There will be the sensationalists that will tell you they made £4000- £5000 in a month. That was a happy coincidence for them not by design. And they'll have paid for it another month.
Before anyone starts saying 'that's well above the national average etc.' The job is well above the national average and I'd have thought most people considering this method of work have at least some part of a high repayment professional studies loan which will have begun life around the £100,000 mark.
A typical CTC cadet, that hasn't gone bankrupt, has £1200-1400 loan repayments to make a month, maybe £300 a month for a room, £200 for food, £30 for a mobile, £150 for a car. As you can see, it's tighter than a ducks butt. And that's if it goes to plan.
It works fine if you're 21 with rich parents/ went bankrupt/ always planned on going bankrupt.
I urge people to consider their futures though. Their are no pension payments and the average UK pension returns an annual income on about £3-4000 a year in retirement for very £100000 saved. I wish you the best of luck putting anything reasonable away with this salary. Bearing in mind you'll struggle to get a mortgage with the 0 hour guarantee hourly rate contract don't count on falling back on the collateral in your house.
easyjet have no intention of giving people a permanent UK contract on anything other than ridiculous terms (and we are talking excessively low with no additions like pension, LOL, medicals etc). To put the chances of getting permanent employment with easyjet in the UK in the future into perspective (in my opinion), the average pilot has probably somewhere in the order of 100 times more likelihood of getting a job with BA - a company that can afford to be extremely 'selective' and took on maybe 90 pilots from 2500 applications. So for BA that's perhaps, on average a 3-4 % chance. At easyJet the chances barely worth considering. And the company ain't that great for those chances! Think about what you're doing - you're gambling your career on this and every move.
As for jobs in Mainland Europe with easyJet - I think that their will be few openings and competition will be fierce. Unfortunately the ship has sailed. Another example of how this job and life all comes down to luck. Europe's inevitable downfall won't help.