I have to agree with you FlyBlue; that this thread has become a sound example of the trouble BA has - That there is always someone else to blame. Quite correctly, you have pointed out that the role of the CSD has been successfully defended by the Union, BASSA/CC89, but what Hand Solo has failed to mention is that over the last 3 to 4 years, the role of CSD within BA has been 'marketed' almost as though the Chain of Command needed to be re-written, with the Captain doing the driving, the CSD doing
everything else and finally the First Officer being seen but not heard, asking the CSD for permission to eat somewhere outside the cockpit.
The CSD's on the £50k+ salaries are <ul type="square">[*]Old Contract[*]Old in Years. .[/list]They are retiring in droves, but sadly their disdain for
'Flight Deck' seems to rub off onto the C/C that are ready to fill their shoes. This prejudice could have quite easily been eradicated by Flight Ops/Cabin Crew management, but instead there were many quite rude
demotivating changes made to both Pilot status and
inflammatory enhances made to the CSD's perks. . .Consequently we whinged. They stuck two fingers up at us. The levels of 'eyedrops' in Tea rose significantly and now we're locked in to our office, at the mercy of the occasional embittered Windsor Resident who has never married but has 12 Cats who are all neutered and called Nigel.
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