Good salary poor treatment - Pilot, First Officer Ryanair Employee Review

3.0
Mar 7, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stable roster (5-4) may days of annual leave (around 60 if you add days off + annual leave and spread them throughout the year). Good pay for low experienced pilots and fast upgrade to captain

Cons

They send you where they like, they don't care about your base preference. They force you to fly long duties close to captain discretion even when there is no need to (winter) and then you have many standby days where you are not getting paid, but you have to be at the base they gave to you anyways.

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5.0
Jun 2, 2025
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Pros

lot of days off, no flying and free time

Cons

Salary could be better, but compared to the working days was really ok

1.0
May 7, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent salary, but still not enough, and not even comparable with other airlines, also the low cost ones.

Cons

Everything. The worst company I have ever worked for, 0, ZERO respect for the workers. Your are just a slave, that needs to sell as much scratch cards and products on board. If you don't do it? They will call you on your personal mobile and tell you that it's not acceptable and stuff like this, trying to scare you. I have seen people FIRED for this, and even for other stupid things. Also sometimes, it's SO unsafe! There's cabin crews, that I met, that literally don't know anything about this work, not even closing the doors properly. Absolutely a disaster, but yeah, you just need to sell as much as possible, who cares about the rest.. Also, you are not getting paid for OT, it doesn't even exist, usually you do 4 flights in a day, you could start at 5:00 AM (It means that you need to get up at 3:30 maybe, and be at the airport on time), and get back home after 5/6 PM, it happened to me a lot of times, and my health, was absolutely a disaster, I had to leave because I had a lot of medical conditions due to flying too much. I couldn't do that anymore.

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