Pilots with other airlines get a bonus for each extra hour they fly. Furthermore, our salaries are not fixed and go up or down according to how many hours we fly. Pilots with other airlines get their full salary even if they are off work because of illness. If we are ill, we lose 60 per cent of our income. Officials at the airline declined to comment on how much money EgyptAir has lost because of the pilots' work to rule.
Pilots are committed to the flight schedule.
According to Asi, bad weather which hit Europe and parts of the Middle East, and the sheer volume of passengers at this time of the year, caused confusion throughout the industry. Ever since then, EgyptAir has been attacked in their pages. Sidki blamed the pilots for taking advantage of the peak holiday season in an attempt to pressure the management into agreeing to their demands. A settlement appeared to be in the offing two days ago, when, according to Asi, Fahim Rayan, the board chairman of EgyptAir, asked for a fully-financed pilots' retirement fund to be set up. He also asked for a committee to be formed to re-evaluate the reward system for all of the company's employees, including pilots.