While you ponder on all the goodies the latest EK pay review will allow you to purchase.
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I made the Move from EK to Jet2 eight months ago and I’m very happy I did. I enjoyed my seven years in Dubai but didn’t realise how fatigued I was. My sleep patterns took several months to recover. I’m now flying out of a base 30 minutes from home and spend much more quality time with the family. The recent 3% and £3000 rise on the basic helps but the tax man takes a fair slice! All in all the lifestyle is so much better and sustainable in the long term. The salary is comfortable. I have my life back and the wife and kids are very happy.

Good to hear Ngenfire, sounds like you made the right move for you and your family.

Could you shed some more light at things like salary, pension and rosters in Jet2. I’m sure it’s seasonal and base dependent, but from your own point of view.

Also, I’m assuming you joined as a DEC - did they bond you for the typerating?

Thanks

Any idea of the take home pay in euros (left seat) if based in Spain?
Also, is it easy to get a Spanish base?

Ouch! I didn't know that, thanks for the info!

By some twist of fate I will receive my salary, 5 week profit share and 6 month housing allowance in May’s pay check and I won’t be alone.

Its basically the same amount that a Jet 2 FO will receive in a whole financial year.

£4,500 a month as FO in the UK with anybody can’t be true unless you’re a lifer RHS at BA with at least 5-7 years behind you.

No dog in this fight but since profit share was discussed - from May ‘08 to May ‘18 EK pilots have EARNED 51 weeks of profit share.

I don’t expect much over target next year 4.5bn - if at all.

I’ve got a huge Banana this month...:}

If like Craggenmore and BigGeordie all you're interested in is the money side of things and you don't care about how hard you work to earn it and with no set of defined rules and you don't mind living in DXB then EK is the job for you...
But this doesn't suit all of us and in that case there are jobs out there and enough of them that you can choose which one suits you best...

Craggenmore, as a year 2 F/O I now clear just under £4500/month after a 15% pension contribution from both myself and my employer, I get private medical care, LOL and other benefits and thats excluding the subsitence allowances which are far more realistic than the EK allowances. All that is for a contracted 750hrs/year (even though in the last 12 months I have flown less than 600).
Of course that is less than I was earning as an EK skipper especially if you wish to take the live out allowance and profit share into account.

As I said before it all depends on what you wish for, I am less fatigued, spend more quality time at home with my kids and the wife is happy (happy dragon, happy castle). My kids are a lot healthier and getting more streetwise too.

The only thing I miss is some of my mates.

Flight, thats correct except that I don’t always get to sleep in the same time zone as am widbody F/O... ;-)

Springbok449.

Your asinine comment about me being here for the money is wide of the mark. I’m here for my hobby. The weather allows me to do it 24/7/365. So when £40k appears in one months pay check I’m OK with that, especially as it doesn’t always happen.

I might be wrong here, but if you’re a two year widebody FO, you probably joined BA when they came here, cap in hand 3 years ago, looking for 380 2 stripers, and that would make the £4500 Gross, not Net (and a long haul command non-existent!)

Or or did you join Jade Cargo, China?

You also got me musing so I divided my EK hours as FO and Captain versus months spent in the seat and The averages come to 58 and 76 per month.

So far so good.

Close but no cigar, Craggy.

He joined the airline named after what he would be if he if he relied on his personality, rather than being a pilot!

As David Frost once said, if you look closely the clues are there (750 hours a year).

Ah ha! Thanks EdB. Good clues too!!

At least I was correct about the pay being gross and the lack of long haul command (based on my friends there with 10+ years seniority)

With their recently raised pay scales etc, year 2 F/O would easily make £4.5k/month after tax and all other contributions. They are pretty much the best job in the UK by quite some distance - in my humble opinion at least.

Craggenmore, sorry for insinuating that you were there for the money and I am happy that you can practice your hobby 24/7/365 but that would not be enough for me to justify my kids breathing the dust that is currently going through DXB.

You’re wrong when it comes to salary the £4500 quoted is net... lack of command? I have done it and yes it’s nice but it’s not everything in life.

As i said in my previous post, it suits some to be in the Middle East some it doesn’t, I enjoyed my time there but it was time to come home...

All the best.

Does anyone have Captains figures? Thanks

£5k net per month average (less in the winter, more in the summer)

Just a tiny paycut.

But in return you get repetitive destinations, an exotic base in the north of the uk, and the charming experience of the Alicante passengers in July.

(just kidding guys!)

Something to remember here is that EK is not the only show in town, possibly when Jet2 and Ryanair come to Dubai they might just be hoping to target the 700 or so current and type rated pilots based on the other side of the runway.

As a pilot at that other airline, by the time I take into account the far higher cost of living in Dubai, I would probably not be much worse off working for Jet2 than I am here, and long term it would probably be a better environment for my kids to grow up in. And given the choice of LBA to ALC checking in at 1400 LT or DXB to HYD checking in at 2200LT I know which I would rather choose. Or even IBZ or PRG on a Friday night ��