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Originally Posted by Whitemonk Returns
All Jet2 pilots waking up happy this morning, 1% additional end of season pay rise replaced with 4% from next month plus £1000 thank you to all colleagues.
Total pay rise for 2022 now 8% plus £1000. If SH was a politician he would have my vote
Total pay rise for 2022 now 8% plus £1000. If SH was a politician he would have my vote
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Originally Posted by Whitemonk Returns
All Jet2 pilots waking up happy this morning, 1% additional end of season pay rise replaced with 4% from next month plus £1000 thank you to all colleagues.
Total pay rise for 2022 now 8% plus £1000. If SH was a politician he would have my vote
Total pay rise for 2022 now 8% plus £1000. If SH was a politician he would have my vote
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Originally Posted by gehenna
These salary rises and the £1000 are great for the pilots, but do you know what the rest of the staff are receiving, as they are as important as the pilots?
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So a 19 year old cabin crew is as important as a 50 year old, highly experienced captain with associated training etc....? Hmmm, I didn’t know that I had gone to sleep and woken up in 1960s chairman Mao communist China. On a human level of course all are equal and all will get the 1k. Well done J2!
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Originally Posted by olster
So a 19 year old cabin crew is as important as a 50 year old, highly experienced captain with associated training etc....? Hmmm, I didn’t know that I had gone to sleep and woken up in 1960s chairman Mao communist China. On a human level of course all are equal and all will get the 1k. Well done J2!
However if you look at the rough payrises:
8% to a Captain equates to a 9k uplift
12% to a Cabin Crew on 25k is roughly a 3k uplift
Not quite communist China just yet....
However there have been eyebrows raised recently that there are cabin crew taking home more a month than some FOs due to their commission. Good for them to be honest, a senior FO now is closer to 90k than 70k and that's with no bonus this year.
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In fairness Whitemonk I agree and think that the cabin crew work hard and deserve a better than usual uplift, fair play to them. Also, Jet 2 didn’t have to do anything but they did. I may be biased but if there is a better airline in the U.K. right now I would be surprised.
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Originally Posted by olster
In fairness Whitemonk I agree and think that the cabin crew work hard and deserve a better than usual uplift, fair play to them. Also, Jet 2 didn’t have to do anything but they did. I may be biased but if there is a better airline in the U.K. right now I would be surprised.
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Originally Posted by olster
I may be biased but if there is a better airline in the U.K. right now I would be surprised.
For me it’s good but they only have 1 base in the south. Career wise SH for 30 years? Not for me thanks. Pros and cons and every airline. Its what you rate as most important.
It is great J2 have given pay rises hopefully it will raise the eyebrows of others.
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Does anyone know if J2 will be able to consider applications from current contractors they are using to fly for them this summer? Or if there is an embargo on crews from these airlines? Lots of colleagues very interested in J2 as they seem great and terms and conditions much better than else where.
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Originally Posted by AIMINGHIGH123
Subjective.
For me it’s good but they only have 1 base in the south. Career wise SH for 30 years? Not for me thanks. Pros and cons and every airline. Its what you rate as most important.
It is great J2 have given pay rises hopefully it will raise the eyebrows of others.
For me it’s good but they only have 1 base in the south. Career wise SH for 30 years? Not for me thanks. Pros and cons and every airline. Its what you rate as most important.
It is great J2 have given pay rises hopefully it will raise the eyebrows of others.
But you’re right about the career thing. Hopefully they will have a transparent fleet transfer policy eventually, at least you could then do Boeing and then Bus when you get bored, or the other way around. Personally I feel sorry for anyone starting in the RHS of a 737 or Airbus at any airline in their twenties. You might end up at 65 with good seniority and pension but doing European short haul your whole life would be desperately boring. Sadly BA is still the only place in the U.K. where you can really switch from one to the other and back again, apart from TUI to some extent…
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Does anyone know if J2 will be able to consider applications from current contractors they are using to fly for them this summer? Or if there is an embargo on crews from these airlines? Lots of colleagues very interested in J2 as they seem great and terms and conditions much better than else where.
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There definitely is no embargo on contractors who have flown for the company, if anything I would say you would probably be top of the que if you applied.
Just to respond to the posts above re career and southish bases etc, I don't even know if I will be here in 10 years so I don't want to come across as too much of a saleswoman but let me say two things I believe based on nothing more than instinct
Two things will happen:
LGW will be a J2 base
Long haul is less than 3 years away, with Air Tanker flying the initial season to handle all of the initial risk.
Remember, the company have 70+ Airbus on order, nowhere does it say the aircraft are exclusively A321... And many of our cabin crew and engineers are now A330 qualified...
Just to respond to the posts above re career and southish bases etc, I don't even know if I will be here in 10 years so I don't want to come across as too much of a saleswoman but let me say two things I believe based on nothing more than instinct
Two things will happen:
LGW will be a J2 base
Long haul is less than 3 years away, with Air Tanker flying the initial season to handle all of the initial risk.
Remember, the company have 70+ Airbus on order, nowhere does it say the aircraft are exclusively A321... And many of our cabin crew and engineers are now A330 qualified...
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Interesting!
The problem with Gatwick as a base for any airline is that there are already a huge number of aircraft based there with other operators. Makes for a very busy first wave outbound and not much room for anybody else. If Jet2 continued to have bases in the med they could fly into Gatwick from there I suppose? There is also the possibility to do W patterns from other UK bases.
With regards to longer flights, the A321neo already has an extra 1-2 hours on the 737 for range at high payload. I'm sure they are eyeing up destinations around 6-7hrs flying time.
Regarding applications, anyone heard anything yet?!
The problem with Gatwick as a base for any airline is that there are already a huge number of aircraft based there with other operators. Makes for a very busy first wave outbound and not much room for anybody else. If Jet2 continued to have bases in the med they could fly into Gatwick from there I suppose? There is also the possibility to do W patterns from other UK bases.
With regards to longer flights, the A321neo already has an extra 1-2 hours on the 737 for range at high payload. I'm sure they are eyeing up destinations around 6-7hrs flying time.
Regarding applications, anyone heard anything yet?!
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Originally Posted by Whitemonk Returns
There definitely is no embargo on contractors who have flown for the company, if anything I would say you would probably be top of the que if you applied.
Just to respond to the posts above re career and southish bases etc, I don't even know if I will be here in 10 years so I don't want to come across as too much of a saleswoman but let me say two things I believe based on nothing more than instinct
Two things will happen:
LGW will be a J2 base
Long haul is less than 3 years away, with Air Tanker flying the initial season to handle all of the initial risk.
Remember, the company have 70+ Airbus on order, nowhere does it say the aircraft are exclusively A321... And many of our cabin crew and engineers are now A330 qualified...
Just to respond to the posts above re career and southish bases etc, I don't even know if I will be here in 10 years so I don't want to come across as too much of a saleswoman but let me say two things I believe based on nothing more than instinct
Two things will happen:
LGW will be a J2 base
Long haul is less than 3 years away, with Air Tanker flying the initial season to handle all of the initial risk.
Remember, the company have 70+ Airbus on order, nowhere does it say the aircraft are exclusively A321... And many of our cabin crew and engineers are now A330 qualified...
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Originally Posted by excrab
Personally I feel sorry for anyone starting in the RHS of a 737 or Airbus at any airline in their twenties. You might end up at 65 with good seniority and pension but doing European short haul your whole life would be desperately boring.
It was pretty much everything within 5h of flight time of central europe and with 1700m of concrete. It is a tremendous variety in flying challenges and it all comes with hardly any night flights, no jetlag and no flat-sitting of your backside for hours over an ocean.
I might want at one point to go longhaul, but if not, no regrets either.
If I go longhaul, I'd prefer a medium size widebody which has a more divers route network. The thought of going to the same 8 destinations for 20 years sounds scarily boring to me. But each to their own.
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Originally Posted by 1201alarm
So far I have flown to all the major airports in Europe (MAD, FRA, MUC, LHR, ZRH, AMS, CDG, FCO), I have flown to all the typical charter destinations (canaries, the greek islands, PMI, IBZ, corsica, sardinia, ...), all that mixed with lots of smaller european cities (ALC, FAO, NCE, BUD, WAW, these are just examples, there are a three digit figure of them), and besides all that I flew as far as the canaries, north africa, egypt, israel, russia, iceland etc.
Wow... have you considered applying to the European Space Agency?
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Originally Posted by 1201alarm
Find that way too negative and judgemental. I started on an 150 seat narrowbody in my twenties, upgraded to CPT and trainer relatively quickly (both after less than 10 years) and I still tremendously enjoy flying around Europe. So far I have flown to all the major airports in Europe (MAD, FRA, MUC, LHR, ZRH, AMS, CDG, FCO), I have flown to all the typical charter destinations (canaries, the greek islands, PMI, IBZ, corsica, sardinia, ...), all that mixed with lots of smaller european cities (ALC, FAO, NCE, BUD, WAW, these are just examples, there are a three digit figure of them), and besides all that I flew as far as the canaries, north africa, egypt, israel, russia, iceland etc.
It was pretty much everything within 5h of flight time of central europe and with 1700m of concrete. It is a tremendous variety in flying challenges and it all comes with hardly any night flights, no jetlag and no flat-sitting of your backside for hours over an ocean.
I might want at one point to go longhaul, but if not, no regrets either.
If I go longhaul, I'd prefer a medium size widebody which has a more divers route network. The thought of going to the same 8 destinations for 20 years sounds scarily boring to me. But each to their own.
It was pretty much everything within 5h of flight time of central europe and with 1700m of concrete. It is a tremendous variety in flying challenges and it all comes with hardly any night flights, no jetlag and no flat-sitting of your backside for hours over an ocean.
I might want at one point to go longhaul, but if not, no regrets either.
If I go longhaul, I'd prefer a medium size widebody which has a more divers route network. The thought of going to the same 8 destinations for 20 years sounds scarily boring to me. But each to their own.
I think this might be the single smuggest post I have ever had the misfortune of reading on PPRuNe.
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And it pretty well makes my point for me, if 1201alarm has done all these things by his or her mid thirties, and mastered all the challenges a short haul airline can offer what is she or he going to do for the next thirty years apart from more of the same, either in the aircraft or in the back of the sim. Eventually it reaches a point where the major challenge of the day (depending on which airline you fly for) is finding the controls and screen for the flight deck door camera.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy European ops with the airline I fly for, which may or may not be connected with this thread, but I’m glad that my (so far) 40 years of flying started with something different. But for the benefit of 1201alarm I would point out that I stated that it was a personal opinion, and not meant to be judgemental of anyone who finds themselves in the situation I described. The world has changed since I started, there is less chance of military training in the U.K., expat job opportunities in GA are fewer than they were, and the self improver route has pretty well died in the U.K.
Anyway that all went a bit of topic, I believe that jet2 is a good place to work, good luck to all in the recruitment process…
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy European ops with the airline I fly for, which may or may not be connected with this thread, but I’m glad that my (so far) 40 years of flying started with something different. But for the benefit of 1201alarm I would point out that I stated that it was a personal opinion, and not meant to be judgemental of anyone who finds themselves in the situation I described. The world has changed since I started, there is less chance of military training in the U.K., expat job opportunities in GA are fewer than they were, and the self improver route has pretty well died in the U.K.
Anyway that all went a bit of topic, I believe that jet2 is a good place to work, good luck to all in the recruitment process…
