1. So tell me Corelli. Given the paradigm shift in the British air travel market do you really believe that BRAL would be operating today as an effective, profitable rival to Easyjet if BA had left them alone? I think you'd have gone the way of Maersk/Duo.
2. Now you're getting into semantics. To my mind the cadet placement was a winning situation both for the cadets (who were not BA employees) and BACX. So why don't you answer my questions? Would you have preferred BACX to hire experienced pilots then make them redundant? If not, what's your beef?
3. I understand the meaning of the word context. I simply fail to see why you think that your sympathy is desired, needed or remotely relevant to this thread. BA doesn't give a stuff about sympathy from other groups and even if they had been minded to, BACX pilots would be unable to offer any support in terms of industrial action to striking BA pilots.
4. My information came from a trusted and reliable source, engaged in the negotiations between BACC and BA. You were not party to those. If my information is incorrect then tell me what BACX were bringing to the table, because it still looks like nothing to me. I await your response to this one with baited breath.
4. (Again) Working together, as you put it, is rather difficult to achieve when BACX has at least two pension schemes and BA has three. Any action to defend NAPS has to be taken by NAPS members alone. There is minimal scope for overlap when it comes to defending management attacks on specific schemes. All that can be done is raise awareness on a national scale of what is taking place in other companies and how the attacks have been dealt with. This months BALPA Log has a summary of that on page 4.
5. Well I can tell you the disdain of your ex-BACX colleagues towards the standards in mainline are matched by the disdain of the mainline pilots towards the general standard of BACX ops on the RJ, so make of that what you will. I know times were hard in BACX but we don't have thought police in BA yet. If the ex-BACX guys want to slag BA off over a beer they are more than welcome to. Most of them simply seem content to have more money and a stable rostering system. Of course they could simply be harbouring a fanatical hatred of all things BA which they keep concealed beneath a facade of joviality, but I think that unlikely. I've encountered some downright unpleasant attitudes amongst BACX pilots in my time too, do you think I should tar you all with the same brush in that respect?
LHR slots? Before my time at LHR so I'm no expert on that. But perhaps it would make you happier if BA paid you an equivalent sum to that which Virgin paid for LHR slots. That should cover BACX losses for a couple more years. Naturally the owners of BRAL gave away the LHR slots for a pittance and didn't extract payment for the additional value they gave to BRAL from BA. Daft, weren't they.