One and the same
It would appear (having spoken to some friends in Ryanair), that they are pretty much one and the same.
You don't work for either of them, or yourself.
They both provide service pilots to Ryanair on a full time basis. Both use the Irish accountancy firms in order to avoid all tax related issues in the UK.
As far as I am aware, the cadets that are going through training at the moment are given no choice of who to go with. It is a lottery as to which one you are 'assigned' to.
The only difference is that Storm pays less on the promise that if you do not get shceduled 30 hours per month, they will make up the short fall.
Both take €4.50 from your hourly rate in order to cover sim training costs (which of course they can claim tax relief on). Why they don't just remove that and reduce the pay by €4.50 per hour?! I bet the reason is because then they have no way of trying to justify you are not an employee of Ryanair as you pay for your own recurrent training like a real contractor does.
So in short, stay away from them both!
Last edited by Whitstle_Blower; 3rd Jul 2013 at 18:11.