Quidnunc, the lowest cheapest attempt at a swipe I have ever seen. There is NO WAY you possibly could actually be a pilot because our fraternity!(yeah!) could honestly never ever be that disparaging to fellow professionals.. however, for your spotters logbook (if you've actually even gone so far as to purchase one), when BACX were formed,
.. BA didn't operate MAN to ABZ, BHD, BFS, CPH, DUS, GIB, IOM, NCE, ORK, OSL, VIE, VCE, SOU, SNN, PIA, (MXP was already dropped), NOC, LDY, ..... and I'm sure there are PLENTY more from the other bases. As for the 'rights of their more senior colleagues' you will find that quite a few BACX pilots are actually more senior in DOJ than their more privileged mainline counterparts, and furthermore your post (if attempting to support secondees) is actually quite detrimental to the overall situation. The mainline guys who I see every day generally feel that while their positions in the regions are secured, we should be given a realistic opportunity to secure our lives by open access to BA. They acknowledge that there is some political agenda to limit the number of 'internal' applicants to mainline...
to be told that the reason your sim assessment was unsuccessful was "your LOC/DME profile was flown 3 knots too fast" (actual example) is quite obviously bullsh1t.
BA are most likely trying to pullout of the regional market, and their commercial approach recently could be seen as evidence of this.
The company as a whole will suffer for many reasons...
Last edited by rhythm method; 29th April 2005 at 04:55.