As I have posted elsewhere, I'm a fairly new SFO and am on target to gross slightly over £70k this last calendar year. Unlike TUI or Monarch, all 100 or so SFOs hired over the last 18 months were hired on full time contracts. How does £70k in year 1 compare to BA or Easyjet pilots? It might be on par with BA but considering the sector times at a, mostly midhaul operation like TCX, limits pilots to a max of 5 sectors per week, that's good money for going into the office 3 days per week in the summer and more like 1 or 2 in the winter. Get a regional base and you're laughing with plane to car park times. Pensions, concessions and other perks are all above industry average. Though I tend not to get excited by freebies. It's clearly not what it used to be but we live in a competitive world now. For quality of life vs salary it is one of the best gigs in town. Long term job security is another matter.