THAI pilots to get more money
published : 20 Dec 2018 at 09:10
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Suchat Sritama
Thai Airways International Plc (THAI) has increased pilot allowances in a bid to stop pilot poaching by competitors.
THAI president Sumeth Damrongchaitham said the company's board on Wednesday approved the new rates for pilots.
The rates are based on the block hour pay system, which will be applied from January 2019 onwards.
The block hour pay system gives pilots fairer payment as it is calculated by flight distance. The previous rates were lower as the company had narrowed allowances across the board.
The company believes the new measure will help motivate its pilots to stay with the company.
Over the past 10-15 years, THAI have lost pilots to other airlines due to the emergence of low cost airlines that offer better pay.
Currently, THAI employs about 1,300 pilots across its domestic and international routes.
According to Linkedin the median salary of Thai Airways pilots is $95,000, or just over 3 million baht.
A THAI source said many premium and budget airlines have already applied the block hour pay system to prevent the poaching of pilots by other companies.
Many THAI pilots have resigned to join other airlines after being offered better allowances and pay, the source noted.
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Vocabulary
- across the board: involving everyone or everything - รวมทั้งทุกคนหรือทุกอย่าง
- allowance: an amount of money that someone receives in order to pay for the things that they need - เงินสนับสนุน
- emergence: the process of appearing - การปรากฎออกมา
- fair: acceptable and appropriate in a particular situation - เท่าเทียม, ยุติธรรม
- median (adj.): having a value in the middle of a series of numbers; a measure of where the middle is or what is normal or usual (measure of central tendency) - จุดกึ่งกลาง, ตรงกลาง, ค่ากลาง (ทางคณิตศาสตร์), ซึ่งอยู่ตรงกลาง, ระหว่างกลาง
- motivate: to cause to (want to) do something - ทำให้มีแรงจูงใจ
- narrower: including less things, smaller in scope -
- poach: to take and use somebody/something that belongs to somebody/something else, especially in a secret, dishonest or unfair way - แย่ง, ขโมยจับ
- resign: to leave a job permanently - ลาออกจากตำแหน่ง
- Keywords
- pilots
- block hour
- block hour pay
- hour pay
