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Let me at em. I’ll put sneery o Leary back in his box.
Same here.
€6k is a piss poor bonus to pay a pilot to forego annual leave and keep working, not to mention he won’t see it for 12 months. Are these guys really that poorly paid? I know its all relative and that might look like a lot of money to some but €6k is a pittance in private sector for something as specialist as a pilot
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Is there a maximum number of hours a pilot can fly in a month/year ?
I’m not sure anyone knows for certain, but according to this article pilots get about 60k and first officers 21k.
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Nurses have to buy their own uniform
That’s some level of skill and responsibility for 60k.
The poor bastards.
Sure they’re only glorified bus drivers. The auto pilot does most of the work.
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21k jaysus. I’d have thought they’d be well into the 50’s and pilots touching the 6 figures. What a high pressure, anti social bastard of a job for €21k a year
Until it stops working 
That’s why the IT guys earn the big bucks.
Norwegian Air captains get over 100k I think
Jaysus that’s insane. I’d have imagined pilots to be on comfortably €100k a year. Sure the lads servicing and checking the planes, those aircraft engineers, would surely be on the same money?
Most of them Ryanair technicians are FAS job scheme lads.
The boys lugging the baggage around are on more than the pilots once their allowances are added I’d say.
Ryanair pilots are all self employed as far as I know so by the time they write off the taxable expenses that their company forces upon them their take home pay would be far higher than that of a PAYE worker on the same Gross Salary.
It’s still pretty low, mate. I heard a figure before that it costs approx €100k to become a fully qualified pilot. Not sure how true that is but if it is, be some dose paying back €100k on a €50k a year salary. @TreatyStones is on nearly €50k in the call centre he works in Shannon when you include shift allowance and you can be damn fucking sure he didn’t spend €100k to get his education.
Costs them that if airlines don’t sponsor them. Obviously Ryanair don’t but plenty of lads flying planes now wouldn’t have had to fork out the full amount. Most of the spend is on building up flying hours. I was told by a pilot that there’s still airlines in US or Australia who still sponsor pilots through the process.
