For christ sake, why on earth do people insist on publicising the amount of money that crew at BA earn?!?!
BA crew are constantly being ribbed on here for being perhaps the best paid in the UK. That's not our fault. Hell, if you were being offered the money that we are earning, you wouldn't turn it down - I guarantee.
The thing that most of you seem to forget is that the more you earn, the more you could stand to lose. If, say, Virgin were to look at cutting costs of cabin crew, they would struggle. VS crew work very hard for little reward (in comparison). If BA management looked to save costs from their crew, it would be a relatively easy task.
People in BA have built lives on their current earnings. They've taken on mortgages, loans, car payments etc. based on what they take home at the moment. Any cut to this would have a MASSIVE impact on their lives. It certainly would mine. We are at risk of this while those working for less reward are equally at less risk of having their income cut.
I'm not looking for sympathy. Far from it. I'm just hoping that instead of constantly attacking BA crew because we happen to work for a company that pays us well, people will realise that we are perhaps more in danger of the brutal cost cutting that is commonplace in this industry than any of our colleagues at other airlines around the UK.
Every time BA earnings are discussed, it's done with massive amounts of negativity and I fail to see why. Bitterness? Jealousy? Why should it matter? If you've got a gripe with what we earn, take it out on the company and not on the crew.
And BadlyDressedNigel, you're obviously incapable of having a civilised discussion without having the occasional underhanded dig at those with opinions different to yours.