Some Ryanair-colleagues who respond in this thread are the perfect example of being "higher in the food-chain" and who have no interest in looking back what has happened to their fellow colleagues who have joined the same company since then...
Why brag about your 120K salary and that you work from the base you prefer if the majority of you colleagues are contracters whose T&C are falling faster as a rock and are shipped through Europe to different bases faster than DHL is delivering it's parcels....
These freshmen who have joined Ryanair the recent years have to pay for TR and own expenses which means they have to fund an additional 45K euro after already having paid 100K+ for their flight training. That means they are well beyond their arses in debts, and in no position to argue with their employer about working hours, rostering, base allocation or any decisions they make during their working days.
We call it FEAR!! Fear of being scheduled with only low hours and many SBY's, fear of being allocated to a base that lies even further towards Russian territory, or fear of not having the possibility to live a normal social life because the company hasn't implemented any form of "Corporate Social Responsibility" for it's workforce that is helping to achieve Ryanair's multimilion profit.
Things will not improve when nobody within Ryanair's 'foodchain' (regardless of position) is willing to look backward. Please acknowledge the deterioration within your company. You might be Captain by now with good T&C's, but then again you are flying with these freshmen who are in a completely different mindset without any financial and/or job certainties by Ryanair. They might not tell you to 'go-around' or that they are unfit-to-fly.....
I hope these freshmen are professional enough during their daily operation as a pilot for Ryanair to make the right decisions in the interest of safety, but how much more decrease in T&C's are they willing to accept before they can't be that professional anymore and act like puppets whose strings are controlled by MOL? In my opinion a person with 150K+ debt with no financial and/or job certainties and no backup by any Pilot Association could easily become such a puppet....
Wake up!!
Last edited by PH-Chucky; 4th Jan 2013 at 13:59.