Fairdeal:
Aparently the FR pilot was on 124,000 euros/year, what's that, about £100,000? Still lousy treatment though.
That salary is an O'Leary salary, and bears no relation to reality. Take off the 4 months furlough, the cost of your EASA LPC, the cost of not hitting your hourly maximums, the cost of relocation every two years, the cost of servicing your training debt, the cost of your hotels and taxis on night-stops, the cost of having to buy your water in an airport, and you are getting closer to the truth. It's a bit like US companies dividing a pretax annual salary by 700 (flying hours) and saying that is the hourly rate. I wonder what the hourly rate of a newscaster would be, if you only counted the time in front of the cameras?
But the point still stands.
Saying you cannot build Silver-Boris in the Thames estuary because some lard-arse cannot move house, is the poorest excuse ever. In fact, if that were a legitimate reason for not creating new infrastructure or developing a new company, then you may as well just close down the entire nation. Turn off the lights, and all move to Africa - because I hear that the Liberal Party wants everyone to live in mud-huts 'in-tune-with-nature' anyway.
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