Many of us can't fly for them, but as ibelieve says, it's just a comparison. It equates to almost 30% total from 2016-2019. Even if you consider the accommodation allowance, no taxes (except for the yanks) and education allowance, this area's compensation falls way short. A top seniority 777 captain flying 70 hrs a month and sells back leave (who needs it when every month one can get two weeks in a row off), can earn close to 400k annually. If the pilot is also a TRE/TRI type, add another 15% or so.
That is also not counting their profit share, which is about 12% or so. Profit this year is projected to be.........6 BILLION, as it has been for the last several years.
So our old age qustion is, how does an airline with high employee costs, normal fuel costs, a strange fleet plan, make that kind of money, when this airline says they can't? Yield management types need to be shown the exit.
The point of this whole "rant" is, this airline is supposed to be THE airline that all airlines aspire to. Commercials have been made alluding to that fact. Yet terms and conditions for all employees (including non bonus managers, some of which do extremely hard work) are very below par when comparing to other "top tier" airline companies. So when was the last substantial pay rise for us minions here?
Last edited by TangoUniform; 24th Dec 2016 at 11:22.