Forgetting about the legality of this for one minute. Can a Ryan Air pilot on this thread confirm or deny that the vast majority of their pilots are "self employed" and not on fixed contracts and employed by the firm ???
I would love to read the agreement between "supplier" and contractor, especially on the conditions of liability and incompetence. If said skipper spears into the Irish Sea due to pilot error who writes the compo cheque ??
Is this common in the budget sector ?? I'm a helicopter pilot and we're used to this, don't fly, don't eat nonsense. But if this is how it works in airlines - tell me now please becuase I'm about to book a cruise from now on. I hear Costa Concordia cruises are cheap !!!!