Lucifer.....You raise some good issues but on one of them you are totally wrong. You say there is nothing stopping us doing office based work when we have say, blocked ears or a cold. And I totally agreed with you. BASSA HAVE approached BA on this issue and suggested exactly what you did....if we aren't bed bound sick, but cant fly, can we do some office work? BA's reply was no, our job is on the aircraft and if we can't do it on the day don't come to work.
It is true, BALPA are desperate to do a u-turn on their agreement to this policy as the number of pilots heading for the 'final stage' of the process (ir dismissal) are soaring.
For me it is as simple as this....unless I am REALLY sick I will come to work. Namely because, being on a basic of GBP11000.00 I can't afford to lose the allowences, whatever the trip. And if you do go sick for an unprofitable trip you can end up losing the trip following it, so it isnt something that happens often.
Miche2 exactly when did you work for BA?
It seems that every post that comes up about things goin on at BA sees you retelling an old (generally negative) story about BA crew that invariably involves a MIA trip. Did ALL these things happen on the same MIA trip or did you just do a lot of them??
Last edited by keeperboy; 19th July 2005 at 10:33.