Just as an aside. Whilst reading the BALPA flight time limitations info pack today somewhere South of AGN I wondered the following:
How much does each passenger pay for my services per flight? (Low cost FO)
I had all the data to hand as it happens. For each passenger last year it cost my employer 84p to employ me and that is a charge they must pass on to the passengers.
It is of course slightly less due to no-shows who never get a refund but I dicounted that.
Thats not what I earnt from every passenger, but what every passenger had to stump up for me to fly them from A to B. Remember to include all your employment costs, recurrent training, expenses, Employers NI, pension and benefit contributions etc. etc.
I thought that for 25p more my annual hours could have been brought down well under 600hrs and I would barely every be fatigued.
Hows about a campaign seeking a 25p passenger surcharge for comprehensively rested pilots?
It'll never happen, but it should.
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