Tandemrotor
'So, in a rather endearing gesture, by juvenile intimidation, they hope to stop them "WANTING" the job.'
Well I wonder how long it has taken for you to come to that conclusion?
Of course the 'intimidation' used by the BACC and subsequently by BA Flight Ops, to force GSS to accept BA secondees as Captains, is perfectly acceptable I suppose. Bullying is 'OK behaviour' in New Road, is it?
It goes something like this:-
1/ BACC conclude the agreement with BA without consulting GSS
2/ BACC pressurises BA to implement the agreement
3/ BA threatens to ruin GSS commercially if they do not accept their F/Os as Captains in GSS
4/ BA F/Os now take 2/3rds of commands in GSS
And GSS F/Os are supposed to lie down and accept this - I don't think so!
Bullies always lose in the end.
What has concerned GSS is that the BACC may have failed to provide their pilots with the real story concerning how this shabby deal was concluded. We fail to understand why any BA F/O would want to take a command in GSS, undertake a pay cut, work for vastly inferior terms and conditions, knowingly STEAL that command from a fellow BALPA member and then spend three years in a small airline where he will be most unwelcome - a pariah!
Is that fourth ring really worth that much? How sad!