But I know the truth and a brand new entrant will take home £1600-1800 in a typical month, which is not a poverty wage by any measure. Your post, Rach G, is why the cabin crew don't have a great deal of credibility sometimes. You talk about giving things up to help the company, but really it was only the 16th crew member on the 744, and that came at a time when we were downgrading the capacity of the 744 from 395 to 299 seats! Meanwhile BASSA still extorted all the aforementioned payments from BA. Now people spout on about how the hourly pay will cost them thousands of pounds per year. It won't. It's an hourly rate from check in to check out. Not an hourly flying payment. People are getting all upset because BASSA say its bad but nobody can actually say how much BA are proposing to pay them, and very few dare to calculate what its actually worth overall and state that maybe, just maybe, it might be better for them overall.