OK, sorry, badly put, it was meant to be a dig at the fact that under mainline control, there isn't a manager in sight to sort any front line problems out. I am sure you are well aware of this. We did our best to shed some of the dead wood managment wasters, but they just seem to end up back at LHR in promoted positions.
I realise that the bussing thing is a bigt issue for you at mainline too, but it's incredibly frustrating to see BA transport parked outside our crewroom doing nothing with a driver in situ and yet we have to wait thirty minutes for extrnal transport to arrive. The sad thing is that for no good reason yet another flight with a BA flight number departs thirty mintes late.
We have been reporting this sort of nonsense for five years now, but nothing ever gets done about it. I know its the same or worse at LHR, but hey, T5 will be the saviour
You have to realise that we are the ones who have been beaten with the make a profit or we will sell or close you for some time now. It's hardly surprising that we vent our frustration.
Fact, we used to have J41's, they were difficult to make money with, but useful for pionering new routes. Before BA bought us BRAL were able to force the going rate out of BA for handling. The day BA bought us, we had to pay the internal BA rate (almost double) and the J41 became instantly unprofitable. It had to go. So from then on, there was little hope, we have been strung along with lies ever since.
