Aluminium Shuffler:
You will get no allowances from RYR of any sort. Positioning is on days off, and except on supernumary travel in uniform, at your own cost. All accommodation, equipment, uniform and sustainance is at your cost. You will also have to pay for medicals, licence issue and recurrent sim training at six month intervals and the annual SEP/CRM refresher. No sick pay or paid leave, no pay on standby.
The statement you make depends on contract type given, granted all new cadets are in such contracts, but this is not the entire picture available to the pilot applying.
Ryanair contracts WILL pay allowances for accommodation away from base (except training duties), accounts for duty travel, equipment, uniform and sustainment as part of the local base agreement added to the basic pay package. Furthermore this type of contract pays for medical, car park, insurance, NO sim nor recurrency training costs, has got statutory sick pay, holiday pay and more...