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BA Mainline starting salaries, FO £72k Capt £97k, although there would be no opportunity to join as a direct entry Capt.
Euroflyer staring salaries, FO £64k, Capt £114k.
The discrepancy is because it’s possible to join Euroflyer as a direct entry Captain, on mainline shorthaul FOs have the opportunity to move to the left hand seat after about 3-5 years, salary would be about the same as Euroflyer. There is a worldwide shortage of pilots and it’s likely to stay that way for quite a few years.
@Misty – The 150k options, are Flexi award tickets!
You can find 75k saver off peak options, but they take some searching!I feel a long day on the computer awaits me Gordon.
Was getting so confused I thought I might actually have to go and visit a real live travel agent, if I could find one 🙂
Opps duplicate
@strickers – Thanks for the insider view! interesting.
Thanks for the above @davefl – haven’t looked into this yet!
I wouldn’t bother, I don’t expect it to be any good, just interesting that they think they can enter the market with an avios protection product. It’s been many years since the Avios branded travel insurance was dropped from the market.
Good luck with your challenges. As much as I love my travels and hate where I live I don’t think I could contemplate a single trip of that duration.
As to everyone’s comments on BAs quality, this isn’t news, and I made my choice to fly with then as little as possible many years ago. My recent F flight from JNB back home was totally underwhelming apart from the delightful crew member who just left the bottle of wine with me rather than keep topping my glass
I was on a domestic Qantas flight a few years ago from Melbourne to Perth. It as a business class award flight. The cabin crew recognised from our voice that we were on holiday and gave us a 750ml bottle of wine. Can’t imagine that happening on any other airline 🙂
@Man-of-Kent – if you had proceeded further with your insurance application and read the terms (even just the simple IPID) you would have run a mile!
Indeed @JDB reading the documents would have been the next step if they had come up with good price. I noted they claim a Defaqto 5 star rating for their single trip policy so I’m going to need to look into the rating criteria further as I had always used that as a good guide.
@davefl – Ok thanks anyway, yes flights are booked now, but I keep dwelling on the prospect of becoming travel weary! I have friends that are on a 6 month trip in Asia, and they have had to stop for 5 days at a beach Resort in Koh Rong In Cambodia, to rest, because they have become exhausted.
I am determined to proceed with my plans, and I will cross that bridge at the time, should it ever materialize. The only problem facing me at the moment, is where I intend to spend Christmas and see the new year in? Also travel in such a way, to maximize my visa allowances.
On the note of BA staff, I will never forget it, many years ago I was flying to Mexico, in Y, I visited the galley, and requested a brandy, I can’t remember the actual brand, I tried it, and the crew offered me another one, I politely refused, saying it was not very good, not that I was expecting anything grand in economy.
A short while later after he had finished serving, he approached me with a brandy glass half full of XO brandy, he had taken from first class.
Later in the flight, he approached me with a 500ml water bottle full of OX brandy, and said take this home with you! That was one of the best experiences I’ve had with a cabin crew member, very few and far between now sadly.
@BA Flyer IHG Stayer – I really don’t think that’s any sort of excuse. People either naturally understand the concept of customer service or they don’t – you can’t ‘forget’.
But what BFIS said makes sense. If the crew had been managing Y cabin for a week where they see the worst of passengers day in day out and suddenly put in charge of J, they are going to struggle with the different expectations. I’ll blame BA for this.
I noted they claim a Defaqto 5 star rating for their single trip policy so I’m going to need to look into the rating criteria further as I had always used that as a good guide.
How can you have a defaqto 5* rating for a product that has just been launched. Insane
@Gordon, that’s exceptional service, as you say it’s a shame it’s so rare these days‘morning
Had an email from BA telling me that a e-voucher was about to expire. Had no knowledge of this whatsoever. I have regularly checked for unused vouchers after complaints/Covid and this one [£100] is a complete mystery and wildly frustrating as I have just completed my bookings for next year! @!#*! So, as it has to be used by 13 September and I have no pending flight bookings, can it used in another way? Shame to waste it…
So will booking a flight and then cancelling, generate another voucher [minus cancellation fee]?
I noted they claim a Defaqto 5 star rating for their single trip policy so I’m going to need to look into the rating criteria further as I had always used that as a good guide.
How can you have a defaqto 5* rating for a product that has just been launched. Insane
Defaqto is scored solely on a product’s features and benefits. There is no assessment of how well those features and benefits are delivered. If your product ticks all the boxes it gets all the stars.
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