Leaving the predjudice aside, a lot of the arguments against Mrs Starmer appear to centre around the costs to BA. Does anyone have any figures to illustrate this? Presumably she will only receive 50% of salary for working 50% of the time, and only the flight pay etc for flights she actually undertakes, so on that side of things BA pays less. Given her age I find the argument about payback of costs of training irrelevant, as I don't see any great difference between someone spending several years longer clocking up hours due to part time working, and someone who flies full time for 5 years (say) and then leaves for another airline - just one of the risks of business. Are there any numbers around the basic cost of employing a pilot before they start receiving anything in their paypacket?
How does part time work for a BA pilot? On the Flybe thread elsewhere there was discussion of part time working for them, and on the face of it it seemed to be of benefit to the company, as the 900 hours problem didn't kick in, so a 75% time pilot would likely work >75% of 900 hours.