Originally Posted by
bonzy
Crew are still leaving Virgin every month and it's still not a happy place.
Latest union agreement, now has the company saying they cannot to commit to certain things.
VAA have a nasty habit of ignoring industrial agreements. The 2001 LIFO agreement ignored during Covid resulting in 15 year captains being made redundant because on the wrong fleet, 6 month junior FOs retained. The Managed Returned Pathway scheme for hold pool pilots failed the first test of replacing exiting pilots with ones from the hold pool… not able to at this time.
Government furlough scheme not utilised to save pilot jobs despite aircraft merely being grounded and a clear future requirement to crew them. VAA cited no money for the conversion courses to retrain senior pilots then paid the management team millions in bonuses shortly thereafter. This was all agreed by the BALPA chairman who is now head of flight crew.
It’s no longer a legacy, seniority airline. You will spend your career under a cloud of uncertainty, knowing that they will/can make you redundant using any criteria that suits them at any given time.
Join BA if you have the option where seniority principles are respected and you can at least plan on career stability based on this principal.