If this is true, I can see that the likes of EJ/FR will be trembling in their boots. I bet they are full of folk just waiting for this oportunity.
Oh how this would hurt the already creaking training program that these LCC's have. With eJ struggling to keep their fleet flying due to the intensive training required for TWO a/c types and RYR pilots simmering just below the surface, this could be a summer of discontent for those airlines where they have been continually undermining their pilots T's & C's. I think a few of the IT operators could find themselves struggling to crew their fleets this summer too if BA start to draw in experienced pilots.
The Cutthroat Business School of management that requires savings to made by eroding the crews T's & C's instead of looking at their own excesses is going to come back and haunt them. Watch out for lots of delays and cancellations with the LCC's and IT operators this summer if BA make their move. In fact, it could be a brilliant plan by BA just to show what a large operator with enough fat can do to undermine those LCC's that have been taking pokes at it for so long.
