Hi all, would anyone be able to give an insight to what a typical summer and winter roster looks like in Manchester for Jet2 on the Airbus?

Thanks in advance!

I don’t think they have a had a “typical”‘summer as yet as the fleet and recruitment is still growing.

All I will say is I have been pleasantly surprised in ALL respects. Winter is great. Summer can be tiring at times but what do you expect? It's a summer intensive operation. Not sure what people mean about it feeling like a 'small' airline (I have worked for a legacy airline previously). Great colleagues, a pleasant atmosphere and a mature attitude to training. I like it.

Airbus fleet is growing rapidly but a lot of experience in training to counter that at the moment. I would recommend it to anyone but as ever it's horses for courses. After a lifetime of commuting my base suits me perfectly. Sub 500 hours in my first 12 months, oompare that to Easyjet and Ryanair. If you want staff travel (do you really want to travel on standby, particularly with a family?!) look elsewhere, can't see it happening at Jet2.

How many hours are easyJet captains in the UK doing?

Base dependent. But because of rostering inefficiency full time never more than 700 personally

https://www.pilotjobsnetwork.com/jobs/Jet2.com

Is this correct? Do you Jet2 contribute 15% to Captains pension?

Do they hell.

I thought someone might have got a bit carried away

But for anyone thinking of joining, pilots have just been offered a three percent pay rise (so not even keeping up with inflation whilst cabin crew have been offered six percent). Still no staff travel, still no decent fixed roster patterns, no increase in pensions. The only thing increasing are day off payments, but presumably that won’t matter when hundreds of EasyJet pilots beat a path to Jet2’s door following the above mentioned pay rise.

Easyjet are getting a 5.6% pay rise. Rock solid roster protections and plenty of choice of working patterns.

I don’t know of any wanting to go to Jet2.

I think he was being “ sarcastic “😂

The numbers of easyJet pilots departing to the greener pastures of Jet2 are limited. Almost all easyJet leavers go there because of better base locations, for personal reasons or because they may have become “bitter” and dissatisfied with easyJet. Jet2s Airbus fleet is still maturing so take tales of near blank winter rosters with a pinch of salt. No airline can survive long by paying pilots to sit at home while aircraft sit getting damp on airport ramps.

The reality is that Jet2 is competing for easyJet’s experienced pilots and going toe to toe with easyJet on key summer routes. It’s forcing easyJet to up its game and the competition for pilots at bases like Luton is only good news for terms and conditions at both companies.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

I would hope so. 😃

I have to say there are no financial reasons to move from EasyJet to Jet2. There may be other ones, but certainly not financial ones.

Thanks FunFlyin.

700 seems absolutely fine, would it be higher in larger base or what do you mean inefficiency?

Any idea of average for full time?

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I think the average is closer to 600 than 700, but no official statistics

The Jet2 v easyJet pay was similar at the start of last year. Since then, easy had a +17% payrise on “everything” in APR 24 and are confirmed to get +5.6% on “everything” in APR 25. (This was based on JAN25 RPI+2%).

Are J2 recruiting captains and first officer directly in to the Stansted base at the moment?

I would imagine so. Quite a few FO’s leaving/left STN and a few CP too. Also internal moves to BOH & LTN plus 8 secondments to Titan for Airbus experience.

sorry i should have said - this would be for Airbus at stansted - is this also definitely happening now and for stansted?.