Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
This has to be the best unsubstantiated, totally implausible tosh I've seen on pprune in ages!
Yet still the 'usual suspects' of anti-BA propagandists emerge to denounce the so-called strategy. Apart from the fact that there's virtually nothing in that plan which benefits BA pilots and the BACC would have to be stark raving bonkers to even countenance agreeing to it, lets examine some of the better reasons why this 'plan' is garbage:
All LH flying to be done by mainline pilots Great idea, but as BMed have a legally binding contract protecting their operation this can't be done.
All SH flying to be reorganised with SH pilots maintaining their current seats*.
*All SH captains above pay point 16 required to bid for LH.
Any LH captains displaced .......
Reorganised how precisely? If all pp16 SH Capts bid for LH there wouldn't be enough vacancies to go round. Plus we'd lose most trainers and all our fleet management (maybe thats not so bad). Besides, you can't 'displace' a LH Capt from his position by bidding, so thats a non-starter.
LHR and LGW work to be 'combined'.
Well BACC would love this, but LHR work to Bidline and LGW work to Carmen and you can't cross-roster. Also LGW is exclusively 737, LHR is predominantly Airbus. Dual basing aircraft would be extremely complex and costly.
All SH eastern European work to be transferred to BMed
BMed only have a handful of aircraft. Whilst they're carrying on with their legally contracted long haul work, where will they find the aircraft to operate a daily St. Petersburg, Kiev, Bucharest, Sofia, Belgrade, double-daily Moscow and quadruple daily Warsaw and Budapest? Not to mention Riga.
All remaining European work to be transferred to GB Airways
And where will GB get fifty Airbusses in a hurry?
All domestic work to be done by BACX
What, on their 16 RJ100s? How will those cope with an hourly shuttle to MAN, EDI and GLA, not to mention the NCL and ABZ services?
This whole plan is absolute, unspeakable nonsense! It seems to revolve around the fact that somehow BA can 'give away' their entire fleet of shorthaul aircraft divvying it up between BACX, GB and BMed, and that those operators can rapidly absorb a vast quantity of aircraft and crew them whilst relying on a shell of BA ground staff to run the operation at LHR T1. There is also the implicit assumption that BA pilots will follow the aircraft and willingly sign a contract which changes their terms and conditions to those of whichever of the three other companies they happen to be randomly assigned to! Fear not franchise colleagues, I've seen some b0ll0cks on this forum recently but this
really is in a league of its own!