Oh No! not another announcement at BA CON

[biddedout]

Captain Corelli,



In an earlier post you said:

not to mention the BRYMON fool heading up the CC who refused an offer to have the RJ pilots on the master seniority list. Talk about a missed opportunity to get a foot in the door!

Just to be clear, I understand that the “fool” who “refused the offer” refused it on behalf of and with the blessing of the entire CC, therefore I assume that you think that they were all fools. Remember that at the time of this so called offer there were only a handful of BACX pilots on the RJ. Clearly it was not only the BACC who could make an offer, it would have involved BA management too. TDLF the was doing all that he could to prevent the BACX CC from meeting with these BA managers to discuss the whole thing properly. Eventually, BACC drove the SCOPE thing through on the back of a pay package strike threat.

If the so called “CC fools” had gone along with this so called offer of a foot in the door, TDLF, McShutdowns, and The big Gorgonzola would have been straight out briefing all (at that time 90%) of the pilots who were not on the RJ on how the BALPA CC had stitched them up. And at the time, half of would probably have believed it. Hardly good for membership levels for a company that had only had recognition for 6 months.

Backing this deal would have perpetuated the farcical BA thing about pilots only being capable of converting to BA aeroplanes if they have flown a 50t aeroplane. - Bo*^”-ks. Even if the offer had been driven through with both CC’s working together, management both CX and BA would have been out for revenge and the chances of the foot in the door becoming anything more than that would have been very thin. They would have prevented it just to make a point.

Also, if it was a genuine offer of foot in the door, how come certain members of the BACC to this day continue to defend and support BA ,managements insistence that applicants from BACX / BACON have sit the whole of the BA bu^l”*it selection process. Yes, even LCG will admit if pushed, that the tests are a load of cr*p. Not only that, some members of the BACC are even involved in the selection process and have the cheek to ask colleagues from their subsidiary "why they wish to fly for BA". They have been flying aeroplanes with BA written on the side for 14 years! There is even a chance that members of the BACC could have been involved in failing applicants form BACON who fly the RJ, the very people who they said they were offering a free pass to. Some very competent pilots who were trained by BA by BA trainers on BA Aircraft on BA Mainline routes and yet they are not good enough to join BA. Where’s the sense in that then? Failed for not giving the righ b*^"it answer to one of those "Explain a situation when...blah blah questions. Failed for being too strong on leadership??? The BACC have been asked to withdraw their support for this inslting, divisive and discriminatory selection system and yet they continue to do so.

Finally, at the same time that RH was making his so called “foot in the door” offer, he was also offering BACX a guaranteed place on the NEC if we moved into the BA constituency. Well, we are in it, but surprise surprise, no NEC place for us .