can someone tell me the average wage for cabin crew on a variety of sircraft and pilot wages
Ok, lets see if I can simplifiy this a little for you 330-200.
First thing to say is that becoming Cabin Crew and becoming Flight Crew are VERY different things. Although not unheard of cabin crew don’t often become flight crew. Two of my best friends have done this, but in neither case did being cabin crew directly lead to them becoming flight crew, both were more a case of shere determination.
Most people becoming cabin crew these days see it as a job rather than a career. The days of potential to earn a decent living have all but gone in the UK and salaries for new entrants have dropped significantly (thanks to the loco’s). Realistically you can expect a starting basic salary of about £9,000. With allowances and commissions, which vary greatly, you can expect to earn upto £12,000. This may sound a lot when you are 14, but realistically purchasing property or supporting a family would not be easy on that, even after promotion or annual pay rises. Cabin crew recruitment is very fickle, with each airline looking for their own set of requirements. Generally a reasonable education and some experience of working with the public together with some natural people skills will do it, along with a good dose of your face fitting at the interview. Unless you are very lucky be prepared for more rejection than acceptance.
I don’t know too much about becoming flight crew or their salaries, but I do know for most pilots flying is very much a vocation and something they would do for nothing if it was the only way to get into the sky. That said the potential to earn is rightly much higher for flight crew and obviously this is one of the attractions to the job. Essentially there are two ways to go. One is to get a good university education and apply for Cadet Pilot Training Sponsorship, although as has already been suggested this is a rapidly disappearing option. This varies from part paid to fully paid, depending on the airline, and requires a contract agreeing to various bonds, guaranteed service or repaying of costs, and generally leads straight to a jet job. The other is Self Improving or Self Funded Training. This doesn’t need any specific qualifications and involves working your way through the various courses and qualifications under your own steam and at your own cost. This is a real hard slog and takes HUGE amounts of self discipline, determination and cash. I have huge respect and admiration for anyone that does it this way. Usually having got your CPL you then start with regional prop flying of some sort before progressing to jet flying.
So what would I suggest to you? Firstly decide what you want to do. There really is no point in a passing comment that you want to be one or the other, you have to know what you want and be determined to get it. Having done that, get the right education and experience for your chosen role, and go for it.
Sorry if that was a bit long-winded. If I can answer any questions for you PM me, and good luck.
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