Never have I read such immature and ill informed pap as some on this thread appear to be advocating. I think someone asked this question earlier, give us a list of all the UK airlines that have anything other than Balpa recognition and have managed to secure decent pay and conditions. Errr... deathly silence from the Jet2 "leaders" of the revolution to go for the IPA, T&GWU and... wait for it... joint negotiations with cabin crew and office staff.
As was mentioned earlier, the naivety being shown in this thread by those proposing anything other than Balpa representation is a sure sign that we will have yet another UK airline with flight crew who do nothing but drag the rest of the standards for the industry down with them. They will be at the bottom end of the pay scales with minimal terms and conditions and forever whingeing on here about joining the T&GWU or the IPA whilst they see their negotiations with their shrewd management being thwarted because they have some sort of elected employee representitive council whose members have totally different needs and aspirations. As usual, the lowest common denominator will be the one that secures any petty pay deals they manage to eke out of a management that must be rollong in the aisles with laughter at the blind leading the blind on this thread.
Pathetic. I for one would wager a bet that we'll see the Jet2 pilots still on here whingeing and divided in a year from now because they have such ill-informed and naive pilots trying to get them to group cohesively but not with Balapa but one of the other union/associations that have such an excellent track record representing pilots at all the other successful Uk airlines.
Watch this space and learn how not to get collective pilot representation in the UK.
T&GWU and IPA, joint employee representitive councils... gimme a break! 