Right! I've had it with this "City Flyer were the best thing since sliced bread" attitude and how the merge into 1 operation at EOG has ruined CF. Let me put a few things straight.
The difference between BA and City Flyer is plain and simple -
QUALITY. Quality starts from the ground up and quality costs money. It starts with selecting high quality flight and cabin crews who are highly motivated and customer focussed. It continues with top quality flight training (initial and more importantly recurrent) and with safety tools like SESMA(BASIS) (which BA "invented" and is now the envy of the world's airlines). Even if they don't pay the best salaries to their flight crew at least they are decent wages and T&Cs (at the moment!).
Compare this to City Flyer. The worst wages and T&Cs operating out of portacabins. Cabin crew who on interview don't know that CF are a BA Franchise AND ARE STILL SELECTED! (True story) Ever done a 5 day 14 sector trip Willy Wombat? Fancy spending those nights down route in airport hotels in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do - it wouldn't be much of a life would it? As for too much crew food, research proves that if you don't eat regular meals you don't perform - how exactly are you supposed to eat breakfast at a sensible time on a 5am pickup? You might be able to take your own lunch on a day trip but once you're down route there's no way.
Get real Willy Wombat and co - you CF guys were exploited as cheap labour and its as simple as that. The rest of us know better!
