More drunken antics at BA!
2 female members of the BA Concorde re-launch team are facing disciplinary proceedings following complaints, made by Cabin Crew, that they were drunk and argumentative on a recent BA flight.
The 2 Waterside staff, both with less than 2 years employment at BA, were travelling from JFK, in First Class on high priority duty tickets. Apparently, they drew attention to themselves by their loud demands for First Class wash bags and more champagne. When the First Class purser and the CSD asked them to behave themselves, they became argumentative.
The women invovled claim that they were meerly unwinding, following the stressful re-launch of Concorde.
I find this sort of behaviour to be appalling during the present time. These 2 should be fired immediately (and if they had been Flight or Cabin Crew they would have been!). This is a stressful time for everybody in the airline industry - especially those people who work on the front line - and things are not made any easier by a couple of morons from Waterworld mis-behaving themselves. What were they doing in First anyway? Many of our corporate clients are down-grading their travel class, shouldn't BA's office staff be doing the same?
It strikes me that this is yet another example of the mentality of the head office staff at Waterside. They are all so far removed from the front line and are a massive drain on BA's finances.
Unfortunately, the rot starts right at the top, as the BA board is even further removed from the front line. The poor board needs to keep offices in central London, so that they can meet without having to go anywhere near Heathrow. They're probably afraid of bumping into someone that doesn't agree with their idea of running the company! (And shouldn't they have resigned along with Ayling?).
Come on Rod, swing your axe on these managers and focus on the core issue of running an airline and not some feng shui club for underworked civil service and marketing types.
[ 18 December 2001: Message edited by: Hot Wings ]