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Pilots' Detailed Payscale - please state whether payscale is before or after tax
(pension, per diems and brief payscale are listed further down the page)
Effective from:
Listed pay rates are:
(yearly, hourly etc)
Currency:
£ Pounds
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Guaranteed hours:
(if applicable)
Addtional notes:
see F/O entry requirements for bonding arrangements. Salaries uplifted by an additional 3% for those with 20 years of service who joined before 1995.    
 
Fleet
AllAllAll
Rank
CaptF/OS/O
Year
 
20
104082
72277
19
102041
70860
18
100040
69471
17
98078
68109
16
96155
66774
15
94269
65464
14
92421
64181
13
90608
62921
12
88832
61688
11
87089
60478
10
85381
59293
9
83707
58129
8
82065
56990
7
80456
53079
6
78878
52038
5
77332
51018
42962
4
75815
50018
42119
3
74329
49037
4129
2
72871
48075
40485
1
71443
47133
39690
Brief Payscale (please state whether before or after tax) (please ignore if the detailed payscale above is up to date)

last update

Capt top 112662 24yr 31/Dec/11
Capt base 71443
31/Dec/11
FO top 78236 24yr 31/Dec/11
FO base 49613 31/Dec/11
SO top

42962

31/Dec/11
SO base 39690
31/Dec/11
FE top
FE base
Additional Duty Pay / Per Diems
last update
Capt 3.47/duty hr(83p tax free rate) Duty Rig/Hr 12.54 DO working 641.32
31/Dec/11
FO 3.31/ duty hr(83p tax free rate) Duty Rig/Hr 8.71 DO working 438.80
31/Dec/11
SO 3.31/ duty hr(83p tax free rate) Duty Rig/Hr 6.97 DO working 405.04
31/Dec/11
FE
Pension Details
last update
New joiners will be offered DC scheme. 15% employer and 3.5% employee contribution  
27/Oct/08
Conditions
last update
Roster Enhanced days off rostered to facilitate Flexible Working Scheme (FWS)
8/Jan/09
Leave 42 days, plus 10 Gold and 10 Silver days, rostered in pairs. Additional 2 weeks leave available (at company's discretion) in lieu of summer leave
8/Jan/09
Staff travel £25 STBY on company charter a/c, nominal fee & taxes on B737 scheduled flights.
21/Feb/05
Discounted holidays Yes
 
Thomson Airways Jobs Situation For Pilots
last update
Current Situation:  
Latest redundancy figure is 137 pilots to leave April 2010. Letters have been sent out to those who are being made redundant. 21/Jan/10
 
Outlook:  
BALPA negotiated deal to carry additional pilots in lieu of compulsory redundancies.   9/May/09
Overall Hiring Situation (+ve/neutral/-ve):
Negative   21/Jan/10
Thomson Airways Jobs Entry Requirements (including preferred pilot schools)
last update
Captain  
DEC not taken Earliest Command Course scheduled for 2016. Top heavy with Captains flying right seat. 27/Jul/11
   
FO  
1500 hrs TT, including 500 hr jet. NOTE: new bond arrangement for new joiners. £20000 bond, 50% paid by company, unless you leave prematurely, in which case you pay all of it. 21/Feb/05
   
SO  
Taken with minimum hours, sometimes Type Rating with hours on type specified. 2 good A-Levels required. CTC cadet scheme often route for low-hour new joiners. 8/Jan/09
   
FE
n/a 24/Mar/07
   
Scholorship  
Thomsonfly announced WB 02/07/07 they would have no jobs for their current cadets in 2008. They have dropped the two remaining courses they have at FTE, one finishing in Aug the other in Jan 08. They are not being put in the holding pool. Thomsonfly will still be running two more mentored schemes to start by the end of the year.   8/Jul/07
Recruitment Process
last update
Day 1: Numerical and Verbal Reasoning followed by Group Exercise If successful at Day 1, Day 2: Interview, Sim Ride and Psychologist Interview  
Fleet
last update
Current:  
5x A320, 2x A321, 4x B737-300, 10x B737-800, 27x B757-200, 12x B767-300 28/Nov/10
 
Orders:  
TUI Travel have 23x B787 on order, not all to be fleeted in the UK. Slow fleet rollover, with Airbus, 737-300 and 757 being replaced with B737-800. Fleet for S09 ~65 aircraft.   27/Oct/08
 
Recruitment Contact For Pilots
last update
Preferred method of application:  
Faxed/posted CVs are filed straight in the bin. Submit applications via the online application form. 3/Aug/04
   
Name:  
TBA 24/Mar/07
 
Job Title:  
HR Department 24/Mar/07
 
Address:    
Wigmore House, Wigmore Lane, Luton, Bedfordshire LU2 9TN 24/Mar/07
     
Tel: 0870 1900 737 24/Mar/07
Fax: - 24/Mar/07
Email:
     
Website:  7/Jan/09
http://flights.thomson.co.uk/en/index.html  
Pilot vacancies webpage:  7/Jan/09
http://flights.thomson.co.uk/en/company_221.html  
Online application form link:  7/Jan/09
Will appear on company website when accepting applications    
Bases For Pilots (including restrictions for recent pilot school graduates)
last update
BHX, BRS, CWL, EMA, GLA, LGW, LTN, MAN, NCL, DSA, BOH, STN, EXT.
(click to look-up airport codes)
8/Jan/09


 

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