Its only a month since you were singing Willie's praises for taking out 600 managers in the 'willie swings his axe thread'. Don't know why you didn't see this coming
Didn't see this coming? The DVD to every BA pilot two weeks ago, the website and the newsletters I've been receiving for nigh on 6 months didn't come from the Pensions Fairy. We've been watching and waiting.
This is surely a court battle over contracts not a strike. you're playing into his hands......he will have prepared for and you have not.
Eh? If he unilaterally chooses to change our contracts what should we do? Sue him? BALPA have been preparing for this since before WWs appointment was announced. They are well prepared.
There are people in the wings who will accept your jobs on terms lower than yours but better than they're on, they're rated on the types you fly, they have TRE's, they can do your work and they are sitting in jobs at home and around the globe waiting for it. They would be here in a heartbeat.
I think you overestimate the pilot market. Where are all the 777 rated guys? Why did only 12 744 rated people apply to BA? It doesn't matter if they can be here in a heartbeat because unless they have the right to work in the EU they won't be flying here. Even then it'll be weeks before they are trained and line checked by which time BA would no longer exist. We are not irreplaceable, but we are irreplaceable in a hurry.
We have been expecting this battle for a long time, we have planned, we have prepared, we have countered BAs internal propaganda at every opportunity and if the management don't take note of that it will be they who are in for a most unpleasant surprise.