Originally Posted by
RexBanner
We’ve had the company proposal through from Balpa, utterly opportunistic smash and grab raid on Ts and Cs which has very little (read nothing) to do with Covid-19 (in much the same fashion as easyJet).
Redundancies split evenly between Captains and FOs. Won’t spill the requested figure precisely suffice to say it’s in four figures.
Does this imply that there may be redundancies in order of seniority by seat, not systemwide date of hire (a relative term with merged lists)? Or does this just mean that the plan, as of two days ago, is to reduce the headcount about the same in both seats?
In other words, would a junior captain possibly be made redundant while a senior first officer might not depending on base and systemwide seniority?
'New policies which are non-contractual' sounds very ominous.
Based on decades of past experience with these 'save the company' deals, there will be a two-phase implementation.
Phase One: Don't worry, it will never happen, our contract is sacred, the union won't ever allow it. Trust me.
Phase Two: It's a done deal, our hands were tied, we had to go along with the company on this or we would have had no inputs to the final (draconian) policies.