Marty-Party
'To those in GSS who regard the BA F/Os as stealing their commands - what about your currrent Captains? Some get more than 2 times a GSS F/Os pay just from their BA pension. Then they get GSS command pay on top! Why don't you ask them to just slide off gracefully and let you have their job?'
The Captains of whom you speak were employed as a 'command bridge'. Every start up company needs experience in the LHS and trainers to do the command training.
This is why GSS employed ex BA, ex Cathay, and ex Cargolux Captains. Almost all of them will be retiring or 'sliding off gracefully' as you kindly put it, in the next couple of years.
The intention was that they would be replaced in house, by GSS F/Os - that is why they joined GSS on inferior pay and conditions.
Now thanks to the bullying tactics of the BACC, they will in fact, be replaced by greedy BA F/Os who have nothing to gain except the fourth ring on their sleeve. When they have finished in GSS they will return to their secure career in BA, to be replaced by yet another thief from BA.
Meanwhile the GSS F/O is supposed to sit in his RHS , say nothing nasty; exercise good CRM on and off the aeroplane; be professional; not be 'immature'; forget the £20K+ annual payrise; accept that 'aviation life is not fair' as you put it and have no command expectations - it is asking a lot don't you think?
It might stretch the most reasonable of men , me-thinks!
This bullying action by the BACC to steal commands in another company, is morally bereft and those who initiated it should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.