Originally Posted by
cessnapete
As the new rates that BA are touting are £32G PA for a CSM and £24G PA for the rest, it would be probably the Lhr Legacy CC who are posting potentially taking a 50/60% pay cut. Unfortunately even without C19, it’s a buyers market at the moment. Paying the present crew £50G + PA is not sustainable when BA can get the newer contract Mixed Fleet, and for example Virgin cabin crew, for around 50% of that.
A tough time for all the Unions.
There are a few cabin crew with 35 years plus seniority on that 50k plus figure. With these pay scales BA has made record profits. With the current crisis they would change the pay scales but why on a permanent basis. Huw Merriman, the select committee chair asked Walsh if he would return pay to staff when the market improved. Walsh would not answer that question. The final point is that cabin crew on higher pay scales are not only a minority, they are a dwindling minority. MF is constantly growing as legacy crew leave the business.