The issue is are that pilots are pilots wherever they work and pilots are in short supply. My company have some of the best terms and conditions in the business, but we are losing pilots almost as fast as we can train them and we have a 10% expansion planned for the next 9 months. At a meeting about this earlier, I had to show some of my colleagues an e-mail I received this morning from on of the contract agencies offering a package just short of half a million US dollars a year. The shortage has created a bidding war. The RAF will not be immune.
Cash talks, BS walks.