... for those of us who've joined in the last 5 years and for all the swathe of new recruits, BA is getting us at a rate very close to the Cabin Crew national average.
What hasn't been mentioned here is of interest itself. A lot has been made in this thread that BA new entrant Cabin Crew are on new lower contracts. Nobody has actually said that after so many years (not that many), their basic pay rate rises to match the famous old contract pay levels that we have come to see since last Saturday- ie they will all eventually be on this sort of money. It is only a temporary alleviation.
Including other costs and grossing up, the cost of employing a BA cabin crew member is now averaging roughly double the cost of a Virgin cabin crew member's employment costs. There are 13,000+ BA cabin crew employees.