[quote=BYMONEK]Not for one minute do I believe that BALPA are prepared to offer the same support, especially financially, to other Airlines as they would do to BA.
i fly with ex city flyer capts who have balpa to thank for ending up on 744 with protected capt's pay. along with their fellow cityflyer fo's they recieved free bids onto a fleet that displaced senior ba pilots/balpa members from acheiving their pref bid! whilst it is old news balpa negotiated in favour of the city flyer pilots on all fronts except seniority, and only then because they knew it would have precipitated a strike. despite rob halls assurances, rob then a 737 capt now a ba sen manager, that no ba pilot would be worse off the fact was that 737x commands and 744 fo slots were lost to ba pilots who would have achieved valid bids that year.
since this is the last time that balpa were faced with a direct clash of 2 pilot groups interests i think it would be difficult to say balpa sided with the ba groups interests!
not to mention the fact that we are the single biggest source of the money in the pot and this pot is used for the benifit of all members are u not being a tad narrow minded?
the day someone less lazy than myself starts a ba pilots assoc i'm sure your pot will get smaller and we'll get on with protecting our t&c's. then all the BA hating wannabees who are prepared to work for peanuts and at the whim of monkeys can keep on undermining the status and professional respect that their peers earned for them without us having to give a dam or give money to the organisation that represents them.
only a couple of days ago some clown was bleating how he would do 'anything' to fly a 757 for first choice!
