Presumably, it is either difficult or impossible to provide the defined level of service with 'one cabin member' less ?
Therefore the product will to some extent reduce in these circumstances (surely this was the basis that cabin crew negotiated the above minimum operational crew permitted levels of maning).
The product is purchased by the passenger.
The passenger is the one receiving the 'reduced product'.
Surely the passenger is the one entitled to the 'sweetener' ?
What other job pays a standard 'slack day rate', compared with 'that was a bugg*r of day rate' and in this case (allegedly) 'a how did I cope with that I need a beer day rate' ?
Two questions ....
If you reduce the crew by one (between say 8% and 25%), why isn't this offset against the load which may well be be 50% of the target maximum ?
Take a theoretical 10 person crew, who in the event of 'Shirley' taking a sicky at the last moment will generate something in the region of GBP 15 - 18,000 between them. Couldn't they make Shirley's day off a very rewarding one ?
One statement ....
I have less and less desire every day to give BA my hard earned cash to throw about with such gay abandon.
TimS