Originally Posted by
Trossie
Many here say that public support is irrelevant. Public support will be zero. Public opposition will be huge. When the travelling public, who on average earn a fraction of what the striking pilots already earn, have their travel plans seriously disrupted for those pilots to get a pay rise that most of that travelling public could only dream of, the opposition will be huge. Don't expect support from a single newspaper, TV news channel nor radio station. Expect to be vilified by all of them. Don't expect them to listen to your complaints that you should be compared with German, Dutch or American airlines, they won't be interested in that. They will be blaming you for their travel disruption.
Originally Posted by wiggy
How long have you got? The.problem is only one of the items that was causing “the fuss” has even been half addressed (pay). The rest of the items are still there, festering...
So, seeing it all from the outside, there was a big fuss, not a lot was solved, some things may have got worse and a lot of people had travel plans disrupted. Is there any other way that outsiders should see this? How do you convince people that BA is a good and reliable airline on which to book a flight? It might make some outsiders a wee bit nervous to hear that pilots aren't happy. Try to think through an outsider's viewpoint when answering, not just from 'within a bubble'.