Chesty old boy I am sorry to burst your bubble, but after discussing the issues of the “giveaway” of BACON with one of our very helpful union reps your in for a disappointment over seniority! Word from Exeter is that the Flybe CC agree that its not acceptable to dump one group at the bottom of the list, and although he could not go into detail it appears that a form of seniority merger is on the cards. It was also mentioned that Flybe management are looking into setting up a scheduling agreement in the lines of the BACON agreement. It appears that Big Jim wants to try and hang onto pilots. Another mention was that all BACON FO’s with the hours will be promoted over the next 12 months! As apparently they have very few experienced FO’s as rumour has it 130 left last year and the majority of the Flybe seniority list has only joined in the last few years at most.
With this in mind I would imagine that Flybe will be bending over backwards to retain as much of the BACON training department as possible, all senior people who are not going to take much !!!!! especially if the current perks disappear
How reliable this information is, who knows but I don’t see that BALPA has a reason to lie to us, and info from insiders across the fence seem to corroborate some info. We have been swimming in muddy water for a while, lets just hope we haven’t just found the sewage outlet.