Originally Posted by
A320LGW
The BA pilot body is too fractured.
LHR mainline, LGW euroflier, LHR short haul, LHR long haul, PP24, PP34 .. before we get into the various pension arrangements. Whatever about BA, they're a business out to make as much money as they can, I can understand them. It's BALPA who are to be blamed for allowing this all to happen, IMHO of course. No other union worth their salt would have allowed it.
The problem with this fractured pilot body is that it now appears to be nigh on impossible to get everyone on the same page, behind one single aim when it comes to pay, because x% of the body have no skin in the game when it comes to improving another cohort's pay, or they see it as potentially occurring at their expense (and understandably so).
Disagree from the POV it’s extremely easy to get 100% of the pilot community behind a 20% consolidated rise to take us back to where we should be right now. Besides the obvious workload problems everybody just wants their 20% back regardless of their status. The real problem is a multilayered one, Balpa seem determined to solve the company’s problems for them expecting something in return that never comes and IAG simply don’t want to spend any money and are quite happy to increase profit at our expense.