Revisiting the original post, the complaint was 3 fold.
1 , that pilots are positioning themselves around Europe at the companies behest in their own time. I have not had sight of a Contract involving "floating Contractors", but, I don't believe anyone had to sign for this in preference to being allocated a Base, and, if I remember, it attracted a higher hourly payment, and a 5/5 roster (which as many have pointed out , could easily end up as 7/2 depending where you have to get to on a particular week ). So, those that signed for it have to put up with the faffing around their choice entails, fair no ?
Other Contractors seen moving themselves around Europe in their "free time" are indeed in their free time, as they are "commuting", and choose not to live at their own base. This group I am led to believe , comprised of based contractors & normal Ryanair employees are the biggest percentage by far these days.
2 - Staff Security search points are being misused . . . . . as I stated earlier, I cannot see this floating at a Base like STN, where many of the security staff were pretty awful in the time I went through there, & would certainly not have hesitated to make cr@p for any pilot of whom they believed even a remote chance of nailing existed. I think it is unfeasible that some local arrangement has not been made here ,& at the other larger bases, too many guys going through each day for it not to be noticed.
3 - Ryanair are positioning people all over the place without counting it as duty. . . . . no, because it is no more duty than Capt Bloggs driving from Norwich to Stansted if that is his desire, & is simply "the pilot getting to work in his free time".
Now, what is so complicated about this , that it has taken 7 pages for the penny to drop for some of you ?
