It's become SO tragic, it is almost funny. Eddington hides in his glorious, glass walled, ivory tower surrounded by administrators who are determined that job losses be confined to operational staff only, and they get their way! Of the 7000 'job cuts' so far, ask yourself who has actually gone? Flight Engineers of 5 Classic Jumbos are the only ones! The rest of that mythical figure are a few outside 'consultants' and all the rest are job sharing! (ie VIRTUAL job cuts only). So we are still overburdened with Revenue Analysts, Personnel, Administration, and the largest group of 'senior managers' this side of the West Coast of America- thousands of them, all chopping positions for uniformed staff.
BA is now a joke, and they want to get rid of.......pilots, cabin crew, managers, overseas staff..... Well let's see them dump pilots- the ones they have work harder than anybody else in the industry as it is- and if they do get rid of them, I guarantee better jobs for them will open up everywhere. Despite self appointed pundits preaching doom, this recession is more for economists than anybody else- things are very healthy if you look around, A short correction was needed, as it regularly is, but next year things will be moving forward. BA, however, will be overburdened by thousands of useless Revenue Analysts (we got lots of them in BA), administrators, office staff like you wouldn't believe. Got a feeling though that one person will be leaving next year- Rod himself, who has proved himself a able successor to the Ayling style of management (administration is King, who cares about staff morale? And front line staff are dirty sweaty people like you don't get in the magnificent glass walled, stream running through it, cool offices!)
[ 09 December 2001: Message edited by: Notso Fantastic ]