Servisair Dispatcher Salary
 

Hello all

Could anyone please tell me what the dispatcher salary is for Servisair ?

Do you get shift pay too ?

Thanks & best regards,

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ball point figure £8.60 an hour, no shift though

Are dispatchers at all 3 HA at BHX paid the same?

Thanks for the reply.

So what does that work out as gross anual salary please and is this based on standard hours per week ?

Thanks again.

40hrs x £8.60 = £344 x 52wks = £17888

Thanks ever so much .... my mathematics is shocking :}

How about overtime pay ? Whats the going rate for some extra graft ?

No problem!!
I dont work in BHX but would guess time and a half for over 40hrs and maybe double time for OT on a Sunday. It does tend to vary at different airports.

Thanks for the replies.

Does anyone know if there will be any upcoming recruitment for the summer?

Would be most interested in EDI, GLA, ABZ.

Cheers

If you cant work out that sum I dont think you will be much use as a dispatcher..:ok:

On the contrary.........it seems like a mandatory job requirement! ;)

Like ensuring that you are uncontactable for as much of the turnaround as possible. :}

miaow miaow!!

double time for sundays...not
 

the only time you will get double time from servisair , is if you work xmas day or if there is a z in the month......its about time and two thirds for a sundays and other bank holidays.......unless i have been robbed these last few years.
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Im dispatch for S'air in Belfast but only get £6.44 an hour :(

Can someone answer me a question as to why UK handling agents call their ramp agents 'Dispatchers'.?:confused:

I worked as a ramp agent/w&b agent for a few years in the UK but I could never get my head around being called a 'Dispatcher' at the time...Because I wasn't.
I'm now an FAA licenced flight dispatcher & it f*cks me off when UK handling agents call their staff by the the same job title I've worked my arse off for when they have (imo) no right to do so.

Call me a pretentious snob if you like but getting a job title straight out of Burger King which seems to match mine & many others.....Is wrong when I've worked my arse off for my job, certificate & title.

Put the fu*k*ng loadsheet on the aircraft & stop passing yourselves off as a Dispatcher, FFS, :mad:

Buster cherry, anybody can do that little $3000 piece of paper. It isn't exactley rocket science. So whilst you claim to have been a "despatcher" in the UK you would understand the aviation business here is completely different as is America, Asia whilst western europe is the same as us.

Buster

We call ourselves dispatchers because that is generally the job title on our contracts of employment and because dispatcher in the UK means "ramp agent" or "aircraft turnaround co-ordinator". Sorry if that upsets you, but it's been that way for years.

Rightly or wrongly, there is no UK equivalent of the US Flight Dispatcher role. The nearest thing would be Ops Controller or Flight Planner.

There are plenty of threads on this forum where the subject of the difference in the UK and US roles has already been discussed, so can I politely suggest you go and make your unpleasant comments there. Was it really necessary to be so rude?

Buster - There are many things about the way things are done on yr side of the pond that we don't like...yet do we waste time and bandwidth to rant....nope.
Its a difference that exists, just deal with it.

Dispatchers in UK only say they are beacuse that is what the company calls them.
For your information, we also call motorcycle couriers "despatchers". (Another group to add to yr hate list!)

Oh and it also pisses me off when American "Flight Planners or flight watchers" call themselves dispatchers. I mean what the hell? They just sit in a nice office..no where near the ramp to "dispatch" an aircraft. I Wish they (YOU) would stop hijacking our job title. :E:E

Buster... if it's any consolation, my airside ID and employment contract state that I am a "load controller"... I tend to put that first for three reasons:

1) not many people seem to know what a load controller actually is.
2) it seems to sit somewhere between £6/hr "turnaround co-ordinator" and £16/hr "turnaround manager" - just ask the world's favourite wotchacallit...
3) it really does confuse 'Merkin and Canadian crews when you call yourself a dispatcher.

On another note, it hacks me off when we get tarred with the gate runner brush, and... dahdahdah etc! You get the idea... :)

Buster you are a pretentious snob!

I have a FAA dispatch license (as well having worked as cc, a ramp dispatcher, Ops Controller, Nav & Perf chappie and have now well progressed beyond that....).

In all these positions I have respected my peers and will continue to do so.

Tell me buster - where did you obtain your license and when?

We call ourselves dispatchers because that is the job title given to us by our respective companies. Take your problem to them and not the guys actually dispatching. While you’re at it, see if you can get my uniform changed to a pair of cargo bottoms rather than trousers, sorry I mean pants! Apologies, not sure what I was thinking referring to pants as trousers, I should follow the American way of course in case I upset you.

With American and Canadians crews I'll refer to myself as the turn-around co-ordinator or similar, to avoid confusion. UK and other European crews quite happily refer to and understand my role as a dispatcher. Go look up the meaning of dispatch/dispatcher in a dictionary, you might see that it applies to our role too.

Life's too short to get worked up about much, let alone job titles! You aren't by chance one of those PPL students who turn up to lessons wearing epaulettes are you?

Peace and Love,
FD