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Thanks for the support. BA´s forum on Compuserve is filled with the above term and is bandied around regularly along with phrases like
S.H.W (
short haul w*nker) and separates the "has" and "has nots" in BA.
As I have said before, the guys at the top of the tree fight tooth and nail to protect what they see as their inheritance. Instead of supporting their more junior colleagues, offering them a hand up or a BALPA vote, they´d rather spit on those near the bottom than work together as a common pilot force. The real Rod of course knows this and will apply his divide and conquer techniques.
Fear not low paid DEP´s, when the day of reckoning comes, the fleets will need to be filled with pilots and starting with the cheapest, we can guarantee our security in BA. Gone are the halcyon days I´m afraid.
30% - you´re having a laugh! Lower payscales need it, but the 100k+ pilots couldn´t achieve that much gain, and so you can´t count on their vote.
Rod