Don’t go to BA.
Why?
Well, in the past two weeks I’ve experienced:
· An hour wait for transport between terminals to operate a flight that was already 2hrs late. (we got into a engineers van, - some entire crews got London buses between terminals.)
· Cabin crew not prepared to dispatch on a domestic sector without a 5th crewmember.
· 3 Aircraft stands full of misplaced baggage.
· Cabin crew requiring '38 minutes at table' (to eat at a crew lounge) after a single 1.5hr sector, causing delays to get worse
· Tug drivers disconnecting and going home, despite being already connected to an aircraft with a pushback sequence number and passengers that are already 3 hrs late.
· Cabin crew not getting up to start their service until the TOC, on a 40 minute sector
· Dispatchers that are ‘not permitted any longer’ to print off flight plans form there computers for flight crew.
· Airside bus drivers dropping an outbound crew off at the aircraft, f’ing and blinding at me because I have asked for them to take our inbound crew back to the car park. And then driving off without us
· Finding crew buses ‘hiding’ in Terminal 1, when there are crews that have been waiting for 2 hrs for transport to or from their next trip on other stands, because the bus dispatcher radio controller is ‘not allowed to call them’
· Company radio frequencies replying to 25% of radio call for the whole of the LHR fleet
· Cabin crew that are not asked & ‘not permitted’ by the union to go into discretion (or they’ll be fined - allegedly…)
· Multiple & extensively delayed departures not having any customer service staff in attendance at the gates
· Crew control not advising dispatchers or flight crew that their flight which is waiting to board has no cabin crew to cover the flight
· The presumption that cabin crew will never go into discretion.
· Flights being retimed (read: delayed) for cabin crew needing more rest in the hotel than the flight crew
· The presumption that flight crew will ALWAYS go into discretion without referring to them
· Several times a week, being asked by cabin crew if we can ensure that our passengers who pay our mortgages, will be delayed further than they are already so they get £50,
I’ve worked in some grot holes, in & out of aviation in the past, but the sheer negativity and CANT do attitude at BA is really beyond belief.
If you think the continuity of your pay check is safe, stay where you are.
I wish I had...