I like tea, if your posting history is anything to go by, you were one of the first to try the Parc scheme. You were extremely lucky to be able to afford an additional £35000 for the type rating on top of your flight training costs. How you did it is none of my or anyone else's business. I understand why you did it - if I were in your shoes then and could save afforded to I'd have done the same. Nevertheless your post is, with the greatest respect, useless. The first proper year of FlexiCrew was a freak. Back in 2010 easyJet were so under crewed everyone was on max hours, max standbys and thus max money. People progressed towards the pay rise hour limits rapidly. That was then. The only line to be extrapolated from here is a downward one I'm afraid. That's not scare mongering. A few people in the company are heavily incentivised to reduce crew costs. The past is a 'known'. It's probability is 1/1. It has no effect on the future. Your narrative on the past is just an irrelevant story I'm afraid. I personally would really rather not be living abroad - that said I'd recommend to anyone to use this moment to get some 'life experience', see another country, travel a bit and let the !!!! settle. Look on the bright side, your taxes won't be spent on repaying the excessive Olympics bill!
If you have a permanent job flying you'd be MENTAL to leave it for flexicrew. I genuinely wouldn't recommend it and I do enjoy my job flying for easyJet. You need to decide if you want to be a pilot more or be in the UK more.
Permanent jobs in mainland Europe with easy as i've said will be few and far between. You'll also be stuck at the back of a massive queue to get one of the very few perm mainland positions if you've not already 'signed on' for flexicrew ( it's like job seekers). Fleet expansion has stopped and the crews are generally pretty young with plenty of life in them yet!
Do what you have to do but don't moan.
And I like tea please do not take offence, your post was no doubt written with the best of intentions but I think you are a little idealistic in your views.
Last edited by BlackandBrown; 16th August 2012 at 18:39.