Originally Posted by
midnight cruiser
The balpa capitulation to airline managements to avoid redundancies at all costs (very considerable costs to the long term pay benchmark) was one of their most lamentable recent legacies IMO, which strangely enough, airlines are reluctant to unwind. Will most pilots quit at the sub par pay? - No, because they don't want to lose their seniority and start again. Any wonder therefore, that in this respect, jet2 can hold it's head high. And a balpa NO easyJet pilot seemed remarkably fond of seniority lists, pretty much to the exclusion of all else, when guiding a naïve bunch of CCs at another airline.
Last year every EZY pilot was offered their original full time contract back as promised. Many skippers including myself actually enjoyed the part time lifestyle and elected to remain on it. Our terms and conditions were never touched…they did try, but membership in BALPA grew to its highest level and surpassed BA in numbers I believe and fought off PB who has recently left to spend more time with his family.