Hopefully you’ve made your money at CX and you’re going to Jet2 with a bucket of cash and slotting into the LHS. Because a payrise on f*ckall still isn’t much. How does LHS at jet2 compare to RHS CX London base?
Norweigan is doomed, I suppose at least Jet2 is profitable.

Oh dear morning.....I hear that no longer suffering the malevolent incompetents that pretend to be ‘managers’ at CPA more than compensates for any financial shortfall.

It doesn’t take too many years of zero pay rise to catch up elsewhere in the real world where most airline managers realise that drivers aircraft are in short supply.....especially experienced ones.

But no doubt you’ll be leaving that problem for your replacement to cope with morning.

Perhaps MC would care to illuminate us all as to why as he says Norwegian is doomed.

ThaUse up 20 minutes of your life and do a google search of Norwegian of anything written in the FT or by any European airline analysts. BA’s parent group picked through the financials and didn’t like much of what they saw. It astounds me that people, sensible people, head off to other airlines with zero due diligence of the place they’re joining. It is swamped in debt, it would take the smallest stagnation in the economy of Europe for the airline to come crashing down. Maybe it will be fine but it’s stupidly optimistic in the growth and marketshare it requires for the airframes it’s ordered.
People need to get out of the dark ages of thinking there’s a route structure or name that’s worth taking over. There isn’t, Norwegian could go under tomorrow and other airlines would simply pick up the market share, much like the last 2 dozen airline failures in Europe in the past decade.
On another note, the amusing part is I doubt anyone on here singing the praises of Jet2 has any idea of what they pay
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M.Mole So have you read the Jet2 thread about the zero rostering practices and how if you’re coming from the likes of BA it’s a massive change because roster disruption is endemic in summer?
What about the one about how there’s year 1 pay for the LHS and that’s it, no yearly increase?
Whatabout the thread about doing a sim crewup every month or two, which is considered your check so 6 PCs a year?
Or the high fail rate for command upgrades....

I have no idea if you’re English or not but go ask the wives of your English colleagues how many of them would move to Newcastle for “quality of life”

There’s a reason it’s cheap to live up north.....

Each to their own

Jet2 pay their Captains slightly over £106K pa (basic) after the recent pay raise. There’s also sector pay based on sector length (in nm) where sectors are defined as short, medium or long. Rates have appeared on the likes of ppjn- these have all been very recently increased by 30%. Duty pay is £1.90 per hour. Package includes company pension (10% of gross basic for Captains paid by company), pilot income protection, death in service benefit, private medical cover etc. A profit share scheme will be launched next year.

Unless you’re on the 757, crew don’t fly 450 to 500 hours a year! Winters are quiet and you’re home pretty much every night (bar sims, the very odd charter or the occasional away from base duty). Despite its massive growth it still remains a pretty friendly outfit.

Not CX money (never will be) however CX doesn’t sound all that attractive these days and neither does the prospect of attempting to live in Hong Kong. No offence intended.

In the long and distinguished history of people writing complete horsesh*t on PPRUNE this may be my favourite yet.

A management apologist with the golden ( I’m guessing B- scale?) handcuffs on, stuck in an obscenely expensive congested, polluted, noisy, corrupt sh*thole making a judgement on the quality of life in Newcastle based, apparently, on the low cost of living. (Yes, I am ex CX).

Oh, the irony!

With logic like that are you not due a promotion? Head of Fuel Hedging, perhaps?

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