I've no doubt most BA pilots would welcome improved T&Cs from BACX pilots, but a major barrier to our assistance is your company councils desire to hold a gun to our head everytime an opportunity for working together arises. A gun which invariably backfires. A classic example of this is the RJ100 fleet. As I'm sure you recall this was a BA fleet which was removed from mainline and sent to the now defunct regional bases. The price BA paid for BA BALPAs agreement to the closure of a whole fleet and two bases was that some BA pilots would be able to stay on the base/fleet of their choice. This was a particularly good deal for BA management and also meant BACX got 16 RJ100s they wouldn't otherwise have. In return, BA BALPA offered to negotiate a deal by which some BACX pilots would have direct access to mainline. It wasn't all, but it was a foot in the door and better than nothing. Instead of seizing this opportunity, the BACX company council tried to veto the deal between BA and the BACC whilst demanding unrestricted access to mainline for all BACX pilots. Perhaps a noble ambition if you're in BACX, but a totally unrealistic negotiating position. The result of this posturing was nothing at all for BACX. Now the BACX CC are again lobbying for unrestricted mainline access whilst simultaneously trying to push the BA secondees out of their positions.
We'd like to help you guys improve your T&Cs and have an effective two way street so that all BACX and mainline pilots can come and go between the companys, but you've got to stop your reps trying to stab us in the back the moment we look away. Your pay freeze is unsatisfactory, but the BACC now have a wealth of experience in benchmarking against our European competitors, plus the right contacts to get the information. Perhaps sharing that could be a starting point in helping you guys build a strong case for better T&Cs. Building bridges rather than fences is only going to be beneficial for us.