ADM
Nowhere has crew cost been mentioned in connection with the MAD base closure.
This a cut and paste from the official statement:
The Madrid base is delivering returns well below all of easyJet’s other bases. This is due to a combination of over capacity in the Spanish airline market, leading to low revenue per passenger, combined with high airport charges which have more than doubled in the last two years and will be subject to further above inflation increases in the coming years.
Please provide a reference to support your claim or stop scaremongering. This statement of yours serves only to spread fear and as an incentive for pilot groups in other bases to finance easyJet's profit with pay cuts to stay "safe" in their home base. In other words, a race to the bottom.
I do agree that our management would probably try to offer less the second time around if a base was to open in Spain. That's in the very nature of our low cost model. Nonetheless you are not helping anyone by getting your facts mixed up.