Originally Posted by
Douglas Bahada
The RAF does not need to recognise a thing.
You join or rejoin the services it will be at their pleasure. No sabbatical from BA. You will be subject to military law. No unions. You piss them off and 6 months to a year in charge of Bog roll in Benbeccula. They won't give a **** that your position has come up again at BA and you need to leave. You take the queen's shilling and you do their bidding. You will then realise that you have been shafted by professionals. Rather you than me.
Of course once you are in the RAF you are subject to QRs and you will go where you are directed, but just like every other person in the military there will be a contract giving conditions of exit. This will all have been worked out prior to anyone, from any airline, joining or rejoining the RAF, RN or Army. Just like a normal end of contract or option point or PVR would be honoured. Silly to suggest otherwise and silly to suggest that the end of secondment and return conditions and early release or extension of service would not all be part of the agreement between the services and BA (insert any other airline that agrees secondments).
As to where any secondees/rejoiners go, that will be part of the secondment agreement. Not all the secondments would be for flying positions, but the RAF is short of pilots c150 or so.
The MOD has been sent anonymised service histories/details of experience from BA and has sought permission to approach various individuals directly about possible opportunities. This is a recruitment process and the “offer” from the RAF to those individuals will have to be acceptable, else there will be no uptake. I have no idea what those “offers” will be, but this is essentially a process similar to that of a headhunter, matching a clients skills and abilities to an employers requirements and then negotiating an acceptable contract, if it doesn’t work for both parties, it doesn’t work at all, no one side is in the driving seat or has the whip hand.