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Old 25th February 2006 | 10:54
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Hand Solo
 
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Stealing others jobs and giving nothing huh? GSS exists solely solely to serve BA. They have no other customers. It is only because of the efforts of BALPA that the contract is flown by European pilots on European registered aircraft instead of the N reg Atlas aircraft that used to do it.

BACX had no jobs 'stolen' from them. The only BACX aircraft with BA pilots on them are the RJ100s, which were owned by BA at the time of the handover and were used to replace 737s/A319s at BA bases flown by BA pilots on BA routes. Had BACX not received those aircraft from BA then BACX would have been looking at many more displaced or even redundant pilots.

Do at least try to get your facts right. I have read over the years lots of tripe and drivel posted by people such as yourself who see conspiracy theories everywhere and imagine the big bad flag carrier Goliaths are out to crush poor little David in the small airline. Frankly its as tiresome as it is wrong. Now this is a pension thread so let me point out some information to you. Firstly, less than 10% of the pilot workforce in BA are in the new pension scheme and they are all FOs. We don't expect them to strike in support of us and we won't ask them to (take note Joe le Taxi). I'd be delighted if we could bring them all into NAPS, but I live in the real world, not cloud cuckoo land and I know that that particular battle with BA is unwinnable. The BARPs pilots at least had the opportunity to choose whether to join BA or not. Over 80% of the pilot workforce are in the threatened NAPS scheme. The remainder are in APS and a proportion of them support the NAPS campaign. If that is your opinion of a divided workforce then you should be working for BA management. Secondly we need no support from any other airline or pilot workforce to bring BA to a grinding halt. None whatsoever. Take note Captain Corelli. Feel free not to hoot in support as you pass the picket line and I'll feel free show equal disinterest when WW winds up BACon in two years. Perhaps you'll find a more sympathetic response from some of your former BACX colleagues who seem to overcome the manifest hatred for BA pilots you believe you all share to join the company through the current recruitment process.
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