Yacht1 and joe tom, lots of banging your heads against the wall with you 2 isn't there? Its typical of how you and your union the GMB have misread the situation entirely, and are now using you as cannon fodder in their battle as to who runs BA, the Unions or WW (I know who I would rather have).
As with BASSA you are being used as prawns in a bigger game of chess, thank god for the BASSA team Tony Woodley saw the light and scrapped them out the bottom of the hole that they had dug for themselves.
Its been repeated time and time again by some more patient contributers than me, to try and help you out, but if you want to base your decision on ramp rumours and union hype then its down to you.
FACTS
Much of our allowances are not pensionable, just like your shift pay.Its true that after 2003 the non pensionable element is less. However still 27% of my income from variable allowances is non pensionable
The pensionable pay rise from 80% of basic to 95% of basic is a theoretical amount, NO ONE WILL GET ANY MORE MONEY IN THEIR PAY INSTEAD IT WILL LESS CASH IN TAKE HOME PAY!!! UNDERSTAND???
This pensionable pay rise has been self funded by the flight crew by sacrificing the 5 year transition period which had always been on the table from the start (and cabin crew if they accept the deal) perhaps you would like to self fund yours by working an additional 10 years as opposed 5!!
If you take me as example. Before this mess I was due to retire at age 55 with £xxxx amount of pension based on 6.5% contributions. In order to get this same amount at age 60, I must work another 5 years (some think this is a good thing, I don't) and now pay 8.5% of 95% of my basic as opposed to 6.5% of 80% of my basic just to break even. If i want to buy back to age 55 with 1/52nd build up I will need to pay a whopping 23.5% of pensionable pay
In summery as with everyone flight crew will pay more and work longer just stand still. There are no winners, and from where I sit, NO I DO NOT THINK THIS IS A GOOD DEAL, just the best thats on the table.
Role on the legal challenges from the GMB, thats if they have the money in the union coffers for it
