Easyjet Conditions
 

Merry Christmas everyone, I recently applied to Easy and was wondering if any of you could possibly give some info on working conditions, pay and the pension scheme.
I've applied for the command direct entry with Easy for the Airbus. Been flying airbuses since 1992 with 4500 hrs on A320 and 3000 on A340 PIC with a total time of about 11,000
Any info much appreciated
Happy Holidays and safe flying to all

I think most of this is on the website. The company pension contribution is 7%. Expect to work about 500 sectors, averaging 800 hours a year. Rostering likely to be 5-2-5-4 in the future at a guess.

Thanks Greaser, much appreciated mate. I read about the 7% but how is the growth of the fund? What kind of % is it getting?
Cheers mate

A340Jock, It's a money purchase scheme so they pay money into your personal pot. You decide what level of risk you want to take with your money and the pension provider invests it along those lines.

I'm investing with higher risk to try and achieve max growth. Reckon I and the company contributed about £6k over the last 12 months but that £6k is only worth about £5k now judging by the pension statement.

However I live in hope :(

Scottie, thanks mate, now I understand, it's not explained on the website in detail. The way the stockmarket is right now it's anybodys guess. Thanks again, all the best

A340Jock

I am a captain on the A319 at easyJet and joined in April. For what it is worth I think it is a great deal and really enjoy it. After the first 6 months on 90% salary you will be paid £5578 pre-tax (not including sector pay of £21.44 per month, taxed effectively at 26%). The UK A319 guys are pretty quiet at the moment but tell us that we will be fully occupied by next summer. I flew 28 sectors last month and I pay 3% into the company pension scheme (they pay 7%). The 'headline figure' you will be interested in is that I got £4056.07 net in salary. Some of our cabin crew are doing 60-70 sectors per month and we can reasonably expect to average over the year about 36 (including a factor for leave) per month, but possibly a few more.

If you want a chat just send me a private e-mail and I will be glad to answer any questions to best of my ability.

How do the schedules and routes of the A319 compare to those of the 700? Are the 700s primarily flying out of Luton and Liverpool? Where would a direct entry A319 Captain likely be based (are only a few bases open to low-seniority D.O. pilots) - Stansted, LGW, etc.?

Cheers

Riker

It is almost impossible to give you a general answer that would be true and accurate. It so much depends on where you are based. At LGW which is the only UK Airbus base until next month when STN starts to re-equip, we have a wide route structure which you can see by looking on easyJet.com.

I am not a recruiter so I cannot tell you exactly where you would go as a new direct-entry 319 captain, but I do know that a number of new captains who were FOs at LGW (and some other UK bases) have had to take captain's jobs in Berlin. There is likely to be a big queue of people ahead of you for a UK base. The general word from on high is that a significant number of future promotions will be to mainland Europe bases. We are in the process of re-equipping Paris with Airbuses but there is a waiting list of European pilots working in the UK who are very keen to go there. The good news is that by next summer we should have gone from 12 to 16 or 17 319s at LGW and the crews for that will have to come from somewhere (a lot will come from internal promotion). Another unknown in the equation is where the next European base will be. If it was somewhere sunny likey Barcelona or whatever then a lot of pilots would want to move internally to live there and that would create slots in the UK.

The bottom line is that there is a huge amount of luck of the draw as to where you get offered a base. As a new entrant you are at the bottom of the pile - and I think most people would agree quite rightly so. Once you are in the company, there is a mechanism for transferring base, which no one really understands how it works because it is not seniority based, but there are no guarantees. There is a genuine desire on behalf of the company to not mess people around but ultimately they have to ensure that they are correctly crewed for their operations at all their bases.

Hope that helps

Norman thanks mate for all the great info, please check your pm's.

curious again............

I noticed on the easy web site, they say all new entries will be given a sim ride.
It only mentions the 737 sim and not the 320, therefore my question........
a direct entry captain for the 320 would he/she not be given the sim on the 320?
Or did I understand correctly, even them on the 737?
Thanks to anyone that can verify this.

@ Norman Stanley Fletcher

and
Very true, especially the last bit about ´being pretty quiet.´ Wait till summer comes along and then see if you are still such a happy camper... :ugh: :{

@A340Jock

Don´t underestimate the brutal lifestyle of low cost flying. Sure, you will be home every night: KNACKERED! :yuk:

Doug Head et al,

I've been with ezy for going on two years having spent over a decade working for a "Major" airline and a (thankfully!) short period doing charter work.

I can assure you that lifestyle, disruption and fatigue wise I am FAR better off at easy.

Random rostering on a mixed fleet with type-substiutions, telescoping delays and numerous overnights vs point and return from a one-type base. No contest.

I does me work, enjoys me flying and goes home ta the missus.

We do high hours but efficiently and predictably rostered. Of course disruptions happen (It's an airline!) but don't have the telescoping effect of network carriers.

I defy anyone to suggest a signifigantly better place to join (Particularly as a DEC) for someone who wants to see their kids grow up, rather than the inside of a hotel bar.

I have to say, as an outsider, 5/2,5/4 seems pretty good. I work harder than than and I do v long haul stuff.

There was I chap I met from easy (A320) who was in to do his interview. I asked him if he wanted to swap jobs - He thought I was joking - I wasn't.

micia:

At the moment the assessment sim ride is in a B737 (could be 300 or 700).

Thank you fred peck.
:ok:

I'm also a Captain at Easy - been here 4 years now. Rostering is pretty good these days and generally stable. However the comment about fatigue above is also true. We may be moving to 5 on 2 off 5 on 4 off in the near future which sounds ok on the face of it. Five earlies here doesn't mean home by 1300 or 1400 though, it means home by 1700/1800 on most days which personally I don't fancy as I hate early starts and the present 3 in a row is enough for me. There's a lot of work gone into this and we are assured it is better than 6 on 3 off which we have now where fatigue is concerned. We will be down to 20 days bookable leave with this system though (effectively four periods of nine days with the wrap around days) where now we are able to book five periods of what turns out to be 12 days off in a row. The company are keen to get 5/2/5/4 in place because it will increase pilot productivity. Have a long hard think about doing this kind of pattern and rate of work (yes it will be 4 sectors most days, sometimes 6 short sectors) on a long term basis and it might not suit you - you will be knackered pretty much most of the time. Summer in easy is pure hard work and you may well not be home every night - I am often rostered weeks at other bases. The comment about watching your kids grow up made me smile - I find I don't see much of my kids when I'm working but yes that's airline life for ya. As long as you come in with your eyes open this is a good company overall and command is still quick but not in the UK anymore - pension is poor though.