Warning: Post from someone only type rated Citroën C3 !
May be moved or deleted as mods see fit!
Yesterday FR commercial director David O’Brien and director of personnel
Eddie Wilson held a press conference in connection with the launch of their CPH
base. One B738 will initially be based in CPH from Mar 26th, starting services
to Stockholm NYO. However IMO it looked more like an attempt to damage
control the threats from a number of unions!
David O’Brien confirmed that FR would not negotiate with Danish Unions.
‘We’re an Irish company flying Irish (registered) aircraft, and the Danish
legislation has nothing to do with us. ..It is plain stupid if the handling people
don’t drop their ideological crusade and welcome new jobs!” Etcetera!
Eddie Wilson said that 10 pilots, all Danish have been recruited internally for
the CPH base. They were in the process of recruiting 20 c/a, also internally.He told
that a FO was paid approx. .DKK 40.000
pr. month and a captain DKK 62000,
whereas a junior stewardess was paid approx.. 15500 DKK per month and a
senior stewardess . 22.000 ( no idea whether amounts mentioned are basic or with
‘extras’ ). ROE: DKK 10 to the Pound!
I won’t rule out that the ‘cockpit’ salary could impress some egalitarian minded
Danes, but the pittance paid to the ‘cabin’ will not! Which is probably why mr.
Wilson added that because of the cost of living in CPH FR was willing to increase
the c/a pay!
FYI: FR is quite a household name in BLL (Western Denmark), because they are
the only option to a number of destinations, including LON.Maybe it’ll take more
to please the Copenhagen-crowd, who are familiar with locos such as a.o.
DY, U2, AB and have something to compare with!
From a SLF point of view I’ll stick to the red nosed aircraft of my Northern
neighbours if they go where I’m going! Servicewise they’re no different from
SK! Maybe they’re looking for loopholes too, but I suppose that’s inevitable in this
LoCo time and age. Things were certainly different during my time in the industry!