What a load of total cr@p so-called professional aviation has become. The sheer bitterness of the "you dont live in the real world" squad has to be seen to be believed - just read it here for a full flavour.
The facts are simple. BA pilots signed a contract with NAPS and Bidline as the bedrock of it. If I wanted an early command and to come home at night more often than not at work I would have joined a charter company on a shorthaul fleet. If BA remove either of these two bedrock items then I and the rest of us will strike until BA ceases to exist. Sure, after that come on down and "nick our jobs" - coz you'll fly for food, or coz you hate us, or coz its a bigger plane, and you still hate us, or WHAT-ever. I for one dont give a flying you know what anymore. BA is a chaotic shambles led by liars and cheats (Hi R@b) who would sell their Grandmother for a dime. Take my damn "job" and enjoy it. There are other things to do in life than swim in the cesspool of self-righteousness you lot dish up. What do you think we should do - ASK BA for a pay cut?
You are so riven by hatred you cant see that, like it or not, the BA contract sets a benchmark for the UK industry to negotiate to. Yeah, that's right, keep doing your own management's jobs for them by lambasting our T's and C's - think that's going to improve yours? DO YOU? C'MON, dumbasses, DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT? Ah, who cares what you think! '!!!! the lot of yer', as O'Roiiley would say. What a stupid industry this has become. Roll on sanity and the chance to do something else, soon I suspect, but by God before then I and the rest of us who were recruited on a contract will see BA dead in the dust.
Last edited by ShortfinalFred; 28th February 2006 at 18:23.