As ex FR who likes to offer a balanced view, i would correct the comments above re tax etc, they only really offer permanent direct contracts in UK to DE and it's a local UK contract you have paying UK tax and social insurance, it looks like the unions are pushing local contracts from what the whatsapp groups are saying, this was case in Italy last week. I didn't like the fact i had to take 1 month off in a row but i think one of the things on the table in UK is 4 blocks of 5 days and a seniority list to give leave in the summer on a rotational basis. Pal at Jet2 said there are a number of FO's applying to FR as their training capacity is really limited and i think FR took a lot of their SFIs, he said only 3 per month were coming through on command.