Originally Posted by
GS-Alpha
I do not believe the majority of the CRS pilots were ever at risk of redundancy themselves.
They would not have been at risk if LIFO was a major part of redundancies. But the complete opposite if BA had gone ahead with redundancies by fleet as they had wanted.
Originally Posted by White Van Driver
However I disagree that the CRS will be the first to be cast adrift in the case of round 2 redundancies. If the current figure of 450 redundancies was to be increased to say 550, the CRS wouldn't be touched but another 100 from the bottom would be made redundant. In the case of more redundancies later this year or into next year, they'll keep the CRS in tact and just chop off from the bottom using the same matrix that has been agreed for this round.
I should just add to this that the cost to BA of the CRS is zero. No point in firing those pilots in later redundancies as savings will also be zero. (The working BA pilots are funding the CRS... salaries, training onto other types, and even the pay point differential between them and new PP1 hires until their retirement)