Maus,
Whatever you think - I am most certainly NOT anti-cabin crew. If we were to meet on board an aeroplane tomorrow I am certain you would agree with that promise.
What I do feel very strongly about is that your BASSA reps have been on an ego-trip and have led a lot of really good folk into a very difficult situation. I am pretty certain that CM is not the rottweiler that he appears to be - well surely not!!!!!
I do think that we all vent our frustrations on an anonymous forum, more so that if we were face-to-face. There are a lot of points (from both sides) raised on this forum that I have a lot of empathy with. However, to often pilots are insulted for telling the truth!!
Problems:
- The incident regarding building a LRBL at the wrong door, without evening informing the captain, is appalling.
- The garbage that is being spouted by some cabin crew instructors at Cranebank is wrong.
- The downright lies that came from BASSA regarding the pension 'agreement' and the totally pathetic personal attack on one of the BALPA reps who had spent so much effort in trying to secure the best pension for ALL of us. Were these lies just to try and gain some 'political gain' and to touch egos that could not comprehend the financial ability of the BALPA rep they villified.
- At a time when BALPA & BASSA had been working together to secure our pensions some of us thought (and hoped) that it might be the dawn of a better atmosphere - until the unwarranted attack above.
- The atmosphere either side of the flight deck door is certainly very present, but almost exclusively on L/H. Thankfully there is a really good working relationship on S/H - well 99.9% of the time!!
The expression 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter' sums up some of the seemingly polarised views on here.
I was pretty certain that WW was going to take BASSA on, but I dare not think what will happen next. I'm really sorry that you have been led by scaremongering and rhetoric, rather than by hard facts and and considered debate.