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busybee123 13th September 2016 21:15

On the 75/76. Started a couple of years ago on PPY50, took home about 3500 / 3600 after tax an pension contributions. Got made full time after a few months now net about 4000-4200. With a little bit of overtime I've often reached low 5000's. With a busy month of say three overtime flights it's been more like 6000. The overtime pays well as most of the time you get two day off payments for one flight as they often report before 0600 or get back after midnight. Yearly hours vary from base to base. Some bases only do about 550. Others 850ish.

Delta Wun-Wun 14th September 2016 14:11

Busybee, were you charged £7000 pa trauning costs?

rjay259 14th September 2016 15:02

1 Attachment(s)
Hopefully attached is my august payslip. 11yrs 78 fo, not quite the 5/6000 some are spouting.

H44 14th September 2016 15:29

He did say "with a little bit of overtime"....

I only joined this year, and despite having my OCC (£7k pa) reduction, and my reduced salary (for 5 years) I took home the same as rjay259 - thanks to a single overtime flight (double flexi). Assuming no overtime, I would say £3500-3800 is realistic, in the summer at least.

For those worried about the PPY - we were offered full time for our first winter within a couple of weeks of joining, and if you bid to go on the 78 you'll be full time automatically. So no guarantees but there's a chance you might not have to be on PPY at all.

Deep and fast 14th September 2016 16:26

Non typed, got an e mail today saying no more required. Typed 73/75 on going.
Or just a polite PFO?

osuldavid 14th September 2016 16:47

Got the "no NTR now required" email also. And the NTR & 787 adverts from the site have been removed. Quiet odd as it's only 2 days since the opening.

Dragonite 14th September 2016 17:15

Same here for the NTR. Agreed osuldavid, it doesn't make sense to me. I would have preferred a 'thanks, but no thanks'.

busybee123 14th September 2016 17:51

Rjay259

Your payslip of £4600 net doesn't include any overtime. Plus your paying £150 into the share scheme.

You'd almost certainly be into the 5k's with one extra overtime flight including hourly sector/duty pay.

busybee123 14th September 2016 17:56

Delta wun wun

Yes that 3500/3600 included the one year 7k deduction. Don't forget that its taken out before tax so its 7k you would of paid 40% tax on, so really your only paying back 4200 for one year (or three years if not type rated). Still cant say I agreed with it however.

POT NOODLE HORN 14th September 2016 19:40

PFO ...
 
7000hrs 737, 500hrs 787

Got my PFO today ☹️️

Dragonite 14th September 2016 19:57

Forgive me I'm new, but what does PFO stand for?

rjay259 14th September 2016 20:04

Busy bee I will be able to let you know in a couple of weeks. The flexi will only work out at about £200 take home (for one payment that is) and the £150 into the share scheme would only be £80. So in reality still only a little bit closer. Not the £5/6000 that others had mentioned.

ManUtd1999 14th September 2016 20:09

Does anybody know if there's any appetite within Thomson to open a cadet scheme in the future? They're one of the larger UK airlines not to have one at present....

uchy 15th September 2016 05:51

Sounds a bit strane this process ...

McBruce 15th September 2016 09:11

We got some comms out this morning which highlighted the recruitment U turn. Mainly our own internal pilot bid filled the 787 slots.


The bid has changed our recruitment need for S17 and so in addition to the 61 pilots already joining us between now and March 2017, we will be recruiting a further 20 – 25 pilots in early November.

I am pleased to advise that we have filled our 787 requirement internally and therefore decided to reconsider our plans to recruit directly onto the fleet and have therefore suspended the 787 recruitment and have emailed the small number of pilots who had already applied to advise them of our decision. We will keep their details on file and should we open this in the future.

Due to the smaller number of additional recruits needed at this current time, we are confident that we will be able to cover this with Type Rated candidates and so for this year we have also stopped the Non Type Rated advert that opened on Monday. Again we have written to the applicants and will also keep their details on file.

We realise that to open recruitment and then close it in this way is not ideal however please be assured that those impacted have been contacted directly and we have acknowledged the time and effort they have spent in completing the application form on line. These decisions are never taken lightly, they are based on our current and predicted operational requirements which are subject to change.

magicmick 15th September 2016 09:36

Hi ManUtd1999

It is my belief that Thomson have operated cadet schemes in the recent past but they were not 0 to CPL MEIR or 0 to MPL type courses.

They only accept applications from those those who already have CPL MEIR.

These cadet courses were never publicly advertised but were only open to CPL MEIR holders who were already working for the company in other roles ie cabin crew, engineers, ops etc.

I have no idea whether or not they are operating that scheme this year (they don't operate it every year).

ManUtd1999 15th September 2016 20:24

Yeah I've heard rumours of them taking internal fATPL candidates, admirable :ok:

I guess with relatively low recruitment numbers a full cadet scheme is unnecessary

xollob 15th September 2016 21:37

don't rely on overtime
 
work on the figures without overtime and you won't be sorely disappointed. Overtime (known as flexi) has dried up big time with the large recruitment numbers, year on year it has dropped for most I know, especially this year (FO's).

asteroid01 21st September 2016 16:44

Can anyone kindly clarify the NG F/O pay scale for me?
 
Can anyone state / verify what the 737 F/O pay scale / ladder is so that I can evaluate the opportunity? I know its 81.3% for a max of 3 years but am unsure of the ladder.

PPJN quotes the following full time rates:
Year 1 £59,290
Year 2 No info
Year 3 No info
Year 4 No info
Year 5 £64,991
CR £70,688

I will be grateful for any info or verification.

xollob 21st September 2016 18:10

The salary is the same for the first 5 years (not 3) so it's £59,290 X .813 =£48,202 less the £7k for one year if rated. = £41,202,
with UK average tax code that's £2,621 a month, add say £1000 productivity pay in the summer months (not winter) means a take home of about £3,326 for those summer months, excluding any overtime (not much about now). Last year a 3 year pay deal was struck 2% per annum from memory,

There are productivity pay elements that can be found by reading this whole thread.

The company doesn't have to offer full time work until been there 5 years, though they might based on requirments on an annual by annual
basis.


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