Ali Crom reflects some of my previous posting and has given his viewpoint well.
How can we all get together if you are going to leave 40% of LAEs out.
If divide and rule works, and I believe history has shown that it does, youv’e lost before you start. What happened at BA ref BALPA was a long time ago and it wasn’t all the LAEs that got the choice it was the Supervisors at the time most of whom were LAEs. They have either retired or gone into management where their technical qualifications have been passivated. The LAEs at BA now who do not aspire to management are a different breed entirely to those in the past. Whereas there were offices full of so called experts “backing up” the front line, this is not the case now.
I wouldn’t deny that in the past it was possible for an LAE to cruise at BA but in the area I work in this is not the case now.
I don’t where you get all this extra flights stuff from. You are talking about the management LAEs of 10 years ago who are no longer around except for one or two who wouldn’t play the management game.