Monarch winter recruitment...
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I must say I have to agree with the other's here. When I was an SFO with Monarch on the bus out of Man my usual pay was about £2700 after tax. I am now in the employ of easyjet and am happy to report it is a bit more than that now.
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I'm not sure where Waldo gets his/her info from but I wouldn't be so sure recruitment is over for this year. 3 points:
1. Monarch traditionally recruit in Autumn / early Winter for new year starts ready for the next Summer season.
2. The latest info I have is that around 50 new pilots are required for next year.
3. You can still submit your profile on the flymonarch.com jobs section, so submit it and see what happens.
On the other question RE take home pay. I am an FO with over 2 years in the Company. I took home £2650 last month after deductions including 8% pension contribution. The relatively low pay compared with Easy etc is one of the reasons we were on the verge of a strike until the last two weeks. The current pay offer would enhance that figure by about 7%.
I'm not sure where Waldo gets his/her info from but I wouldn't be so sure recruitment is over for this year. 3 points:
1. Monarch traditionally recruit in Autumn / early Winter for new year starts ready for the next Summer season.
2. The latest info I have is that around 50 new pilots are required for next year.
3. You can still submit your profile on the flymonarch.com jobs section, so submit it and see what happens.
On the other question RE take home pay. I am an FO with over 2 years in the Company. I took home £2650 last month after deductions including 8% pension contribution. The relatively low pay compared with Easy etc is one of the reasons we were on the verge of a strike until the last two weeks. The current pay offer would enhance that figure by about 7%.
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Just to confirm what others have said, please don't join under the misapprehension that you will get a command after 18 months. There will be some early (3 year) commands this year but then the average time will rapidly rise again.
Can also confirm that 2600 is a fair net figure but this will increase when the current deal kicks in. However IMHO if you want to retire on anything decent, and don't have separate provision, you will need to be kicking most of your pay rise into the salary sacrifice pension scheme.
Can also confirm that 2600 is a fair net figure but this will increase when the current deal kicks in. However IMHO if you want to retire on anything decent, and don't have separate provision, you will need to be kicking most of your pay rise into the salary sacrifice pension scheme.
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I must say I have to agree with the other's here. When I was an SFO with Monarch on the bus out of Man my usual pay was about £2700 after tax. I am now in the employ of easyjet and am happy to report it is a bit more than that now.
With MON you will overtake easy in the long term and probably spend more of your career earning more than an EZY guy, comparing like for like length of service. With the additional days off and flexi day working that has just been agreed MON guys may well be able to increase their take home significantly.
Also, with the new deal, at MON the DC pension is significantly better than EZY's. In order to retire on the same amount at EZY as you would at MON you have to put 5% more of your salary into your pension.
On average EZY pilots fly 40% more hours than MON pilots and a hell of a lot more sectors, although I do appreciate that is little consolation for MON guys doing 850 to 900 hours year.
It is fair to say that a jnr Capt or FO at MON will take home less than the equivalent at EZY, but long term the deal is better at MON.
The grass isn't always oranger!!
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With regard to a few post's ago what a lot of nonsense. How on earth can you fly more hours than I was at Monarch? I fly at least one third less now in hours over the year but granted I will fly more sectors in the day. But the £500 to £700 extra in my wages every month makes up for those terrible multiple sector day's.
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Mr Pest!
Mate you missed out this 'summer', well here in LGW anyway.... barely flying at all - thats all the FBW guys (not capts theyre goin hard as usual). Less than half the flying compared to last yr.... wierd.
When you down next - up for a few?
Mate you missed out this 'summer', well here in LGW anyway.... barely flying at all - thats all the FBW guys (not capts theyre goin hard as usual). Less than half the flying compared to last yr.... wierd.
When you down next - up for a few?
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I've been at Monarch on the FBW fleet at MAN for 2 1/2 years now and have been doing 800 hrs a year consistently.
With the new payrise which for me will be 7.1% I will still be short of £3000 a month take home pay.
Still it's better than it was.
FIS.
With the new payrise which for me will be 7.1% I will still be short of £3000 a month take home pay.
Still it's better than it was.
FIS.
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Office Pest,
You seem to have ignored the rest of Marko's post. He does say AVERAGE hours and you might be getting £500 pm more now but LONG TERM you will be better off at MON and the pension at MON is much better.
You seem to have ignored the rest of Marko's post. He does say AVERAGE hours and you might be getting £500 pm more now but LONG TERM you will be better off at MON and the pension at MON is much better.
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FMGC you raise a few good points - especially with regard to the pension. However the rostering is infinately better at easy which gives me a much better quality of life. Just my two penneth.
Best regards
Office Pest.
Best regards
Office Pest.