Originally Posted by
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Sorry guys but you are on a mission which will end up with you getting even less than on offer at the moment, W. Walsh will not back down in my view. I as a an APS pilot pensioner will not lie down and let you put the company in hock and put my pension at risk and that is the also the view of APS trustees according to their correspondence. You are not the only players in this game. You may wish to go over the cliff but the APS pensioners will not join you.
enjoy your aps pension. not sure what sort of care home your in but your aps pension is in surplus and protected. please let me know if i'm wrong.
that aside the jist of your argument is that you got the best pension known to man and that i should take a 50% reduction in mine to protect yours!
maybee if you and your era had spent a bit more time maintaining the authority and postion of the pilots within flight ops we would have retained the respect and recognition we deserve. instead you allowed our status to be eroded to the point were the board actually considered putting CSD's as 2ic's.
whilst on your watch you let them shut aps, a move i fully understand as i let them shut naps. however you also let a bunch of pay deals come through to shaft various entrant types at various times, nice. not sure i agreed with that. now you think my priority should be your pension, just how arrogant and uninformed are you?
we will pick our own fights as you did a pretty poor job of looking after us ( barps, we choose not to fight, sorry). i can't wait to see what you are going to do to "not lie down".
i have never felt an ounce of resentment at the aps guys getting such a good deal. i have never resented that they didn't fight to keep aps open for me. we all should get the deal we were happy to sign up for (barps guys included). you did and i hope ur enjoying.
when we strike come down to CC (big blue building north of 27R) and tell us how we should all get back to work so that BA keeps on going so you can enjoy all the retirement rights you were promised at our expense.