I think what my Bral mates are trying to say is that we cannot believe the whole of the BA concept. Sure, we've envied some of your perks, but as someone else said, the mere fact that you guys can mention strike action in these days shows you are on a different planet!
We have nothing personal against you, but as anyone who speaks to our Company Council will confirm, you are trying to shaft us with your scope clauses. Did you learn NOTHING from all the talk, the promises, the sweet words you offered during the CFE takeover? Ask those guys how many of them would like to turn the clock back! BA f#cked a good company there, one with a similiar ethos to our own.
The point is that we didn't ask to be bought, but we couldn't prevent it. We are now watching our company ruined, we are deluged with new non productive management, and hey all of a sudden, we're losing money. Paperwork is created in a deluge of new routines and SOPs, a lot of which are then changed overnight as the BA overlord discovers this that or the other won't work, and just maybe we knew what we were doing before he started meddling, thankyou!
Let me guess, what comes next. BA loses pilots because it can't make a profit, (for whatever reason) and the next thing is BA guys flying with us - but on THEIR pay scale. Now, I'd like more money, but not if it means redundancy in a short while. BA have got to recognise it is better to make a profit with an full Emb or a 146 with our cost base, than to keep chucking money away on partially full (and full is not a word to use) 73, 75, or Airbi.
It may well be that the costbase is not all the fault of the pilots, but when I see MY job threatened, don't expect me to vote for a cheeseboard for some complacent BA driver!