Cheers for the reply Mesh. I got some private messages from others but I can't access them yet as I'm a new joiner...

What's the rough gross for an FO/SFO now including DP and sector pay?

FO basic is now just north of 75k. SFO just shy of 85k. Sector and duty in the RHS roughly 4/5k across the year.

Edited to say, not now, but from April onwards

really nice surprise and not a union intervention to be seen, and relax

are you sure about that?

No word
 

Hi all, NTR FO applicant here...since June... and no word since Sept stating 'your application is still under consideration and you should hear from us within 3-4 weeks'.

Anyone else had similar?

TIA

Are you trying to say the pay rise is down to the union?

Are you union relationship so bad in Jet2?

Maybe BALPA have run it’s course as clearly a lot of Jet2 pilot do not want to join them for reason

In the time of covid they made pilots redundant just curious did they keep them on the furlough scheme?

Just be nice to know if you are looked after at a time of crisis such as covid provided of course the company were allowed access to the furlough money to pay the redundant pilots

The word on the street is that the knee jerk reaction by the bean counters was to chop ~400 pilots to save cash outflow. They were talked down but still required just over 100 redundancies which were pilots who had just joined and were under training or had recently completed their training. LIFO unfortunately.

if you are in Jet2, then you’ll be well aware of the caveat to the pay letter and the fact that BALPA is yet to meet with the company for pay negotiations for the coming year.

By the sounds of it at least those sadly made redundant were payed the furlough money the entire time

I don’t think you understand the concept of furlough. It was money paid by the government to keep people employed. If you were made redundant, you were sadly no longer employed, therefore did not qualify for furlough payments. Those that were furloughed had their pay increased to 70% of normal basic by Jet2. Pretty good deal as far as I can see.

I didn’t explain it well, what I meant was that companies like for example EasyJet and Norwegian at the time made pilots redundant but claimed the maximum for them up to £2500 minus tax so effectively despite no longer being with the company they were still kept on the books, my question is did Jet2 do that for the pilots they made redundant? After all Jet2 was financially more stable than other operators.

Furlough and redundancy is a completely different thing here in the U.K. it’s not how it is in the USA.

they were either made redundant (no money and not officially employed) or they were furloughed (still on the books employed but were supplemented by the government). Not both.

hope that helps.

If anyone has passed their assessment recently could you drop me a PM? DEC 73. Ta.

Assuming you’ve got an upcoming assessment (congrats), would you share roughly when you first applied? Thx.

earlier in 2022, already passed but no comms since.

Ah, okay, congrats. I applied in June, but didn’t have my U.K. licence until recently, did you apply before or after me? Thx.

Meeson is always two steps ahead of BALPA, even in the Channex days. As long as he is the boss the membership will never be significant.