A 3% increment is normally paid. I say normally paid as we have had occasions where no increment was paid to pilots. There are 30 steps to the pay scale. It starts with year 1 FO, and moves up in 3% increments. When you get a command, you move 10 steps up the pay scale. Hope that makes sense.
There are plenty of restrictions on leave. FOs tend to fair better than captains in this respect.
I believe the latest stats are that 70% of all night turn around flights are flown by the Boeing at the moment. But, there are plenty of Boeing pilots to share these around with so shouldn't be too bad. The number of turns will increase with 330/340 retirement, but still lots of Boeing pilots to fill these gaps, so I would guess it wouldn't get as bad as the 330 roster of recent years.
The Don
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Reason: Because I can not multi task.