Litebulbs please do your research before you start posting ill informed information. Its what is killing this industry off as it is anyway. Everybodies pay is benchmarked at some stage and just as any industry the MARKET decides what pay is going around.
I came over from EZY to fly for BA and so have seen both sides of the coin (and as Rick Binson has said, have given up a lot of money!!!) which will take me years and years to earn back. Not even sure if it ever will be earned back.
(and rest assured longhaul is a completely different ball game then shorthaul)
We can reason with a reasonable Management. What I am sick and tired off is the employees in the UK at the moment being ripped off LEFT/RIGHT AND CENTER whilst our fat cats in the city are living it up. All helped by a sh!t government with no morals and Robber Brown killing off most Final Salary Pension schemes.
Leadership filters through the ranks from top to bottom. And effective leadership will mean good communication hopefully with a long term view of sustainability. BA needs quality pilots and will pay for quality.
We give our professionalism. As long as the trust can be restored between both parties BA have got themselves a GEM of a workforce