Would you walk out on £70 an hour?

THE 22 senior cabin crew that were given redundancy notices by Cyprus Airways earned on average £35,500 a year for working an average of only 12 hours a week, the airline said yesterday adding that they cost the company £880,000 per annum.

“That means for each hour they fly stewards are paid £70 pounds or in the case of a trip to London return, £630 pounds, a statement from the company said.

The airline said that the 22 employees would also receive around £170,000 each when they left the company with £40,000 each being paid in redundancy plus the remainder in benefits.
“With these regulations the company considers that it has fulfilled its obligations to the employees,” CY said.

Figures released recently showed that CY employees receive an average wage of £3,000 a month and that there were some senior staff that earned as much as £9,000 a month.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.