Sugden This is where I'll have to disagree with you...BA pilots were paid less than the market rate for years. with the promise that we would retire on a half decent pension. It is only since we incorporated box payments, etc into Basic Pay that jumior long haul Captains now take home more money than some long haul Pursers and CSD's. I'm sure
Rainboe will wade in here...
Flight Ops management has accepted this status quo with comments such as " ahh, but you pilots will retire on a half decent package....well, it's swings and roundabouts....you guys lose on the salary, but gain on the pension" . I'm afraid that if that is the case, then I want the last 17 yrs of my back pay at competitors rates. We'll discount the Americans as they were slightly overpaid. I'll accept a basket of Air France and Iberia pilots salaries. Or put it another way, if the company can see fit to pay some CC 3500 quid a monmth, then as F/O on a Jumbo I reckon I would have been worth 6000 or 7000 quid a month. Better think again on issuing those bonds B.A, i reckon you could owe a lot of pilots , a lot of money in back pay. Alternatively, pay some of the near 2 Billion in cash that you are sitting on into the pension fund and then everyone is happy.