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Old 14th April 2004 | 08:18
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Wee Weasley Welshman
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Well I hate to rain on any Wannabes parade here but....

Anyone who joined a LCC in the last year or two is heavily bonded and won't have the jet hours required for BA. Anyone in a LCC for 3 years or so who does have the hours and may not be bonded is looking at a Command this year. Anyone who got a Command this year is going to stay put to get some hours in and is very likely busy expanding their lifestyle to suit Skippers money.

Anyone who has a few years Command experience will be in at least the top third of the pilot list if it were to come to redundancy. This a comfortable place to be whereas right on the bottom of the BA list with Bin Laden stalking Crawley is - frankly - not.

Quite a few LCC pilots are based in the regions and very likely are desperate to keep it that way.

Histotically there have always been some pilots willing to take a cut and move to the security of BA with the promise of That Pension. Personally this time I think BA offer no more security than any other airline - they were on pretty thin ice 2 years ago - and That Pension has now gone.

It will be quite some time before Ryanar stops you from buying a type rating or easyJet radically improves its TRSS.

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