Permanent Delta and gloves off ?
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Idol - Thanks for the Delta ballot result.
It seems BA management have taken the gloves off, if only to put their fingers in their ears while they publicly express their view that the Delta pay cut for pilots is permanent for the time being.
Less than impressive video blogs by the boss and patronising emails from the new IR man suggest BA firmly intends to keep the Delta. That's gone down like a lead balloon with the pilots and with Balpa, so options are no doubt being considered.
According to the Yorkshire Post the new IR Zar hails from the Gorbals, where I am told the debating tool of first choice for the thrice-armed is ... the 'hof-brick.'
Heathrow has just imposed further flight restrictions to end of October and BA has cancelled another 10,000 flights and publicly warned of travel chaos until next March. According to our mole, scheduling is a shambles. The inability of HAL and BA to hire staff and BA's failure to manage, organise and motivate them properly, suggests we may be in for a self-inflicted long cold winter, even before the heating goes off.
I expect the few remaining customers will be mightily unimpressed.
LFH