Hi guys....just thought i'd add to the pot my feeling about BA this eve!
Not only have we got all this bad feeling regarding the IR issues being balloted for but until the takeover of the WW routes are complete many of us are lucky to be working enough to earn anything over £1000 a month due to over crewing. Now I understand why we are overcrewed until next month and we are generally all willing to put up with this until the money starts to roll a little.
So you can imagine how important any rostered trips are to us!?
Well today my 3 day trip included a NEW nightstop! Yes a LGW nightstop!
With no anual leave this month this is my first flight of the month (remember its the 8th already) and I managed a 3 day trip to 2 places in europe.
Well on the 1st/2nd leg we are delayed by 1 hour and low and behold the next leg gets re crewed by standby's so we lose out first city! Oh well we think maybe we can see why they have done this and I suppose at least we are still ding the 2nd city the next day (as per information from the captain as they were meant to be with us all the way).
We get to our crewlink messages and we see a roster change but oh no not to say we are reporting tomrrow.....no...that we are on standby for 2 more days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This trip is in effect worth £150 approx and when we aren't expected to clear £1000 this month taking £150 out of our wallets just isn't funny!
Its not even as if the flights were full....most had about 50-70 pax booked.
We were all sure that we should have been given the rest of our trip to maintain our roster stability!?!?!?!? By no means were the standby crew entitled to that 3 day trip.....there was no reason for them to complete the whole trip and they could have satisfied 2 sets of crew. Instead they lose the last of my goodwill and I won't be there to help them until they stop putting stupid links between trips when one of the destinations is notorious for being late.
We all know that if we were on a nasty double BA would have accepted that (relatively) small delay...
I know im going to get replies from people who think im being unreasonable but why not transfer £150 out of your bank account into mine and see if you like it?!?
Paxy.
Rant over.