This is a hotbed of issues,viewpoints,and a barrel-load of vitriol aimed at you-know-who ,not surprisingly!
The point is the topic that was started originally, and this is what should be debated here.
Like tempermental 4 year olds, some people are best left alone until they come to their senses (i fear a very long wait....zzz....)
Ignore the guvs comments, he obviously puts them their to get people to rise to the bait.
Whether BA or not, I am sure that pilots,engineers and cabin crew alike are in the majority of cases skillful and deserving, and it really shouldn't come to a question of who deserves most praise / salary.
It's not really a question of who does the best/better job ,more a question of why you are already there - because you have chosen to follow that line - - Most pilots/engineers would probably not want to be cabin crew , but I'm certain that most cabin crew would not want to be pilots/engineers !!
If people really are unhappy with their terms and conditions they will leave eventually anyaway.
I have a very strong feeling that Rod E and these other managers have taken a paycut at this early stage of this current crisis, in anticipation of later asking other employees of BA to do the same. I really would not be at all surprised.
When placed with the emotive question of will you take a cut - or - see the company sink into a disastrous financial situation,
You'd really have to ask yourself whether a lower salary or no salary at all is preferable.
I like anyone else, would not want to see this happen to anybody at any airline(I was with Air Europe until that fateful day in 91, and in retrospect would much rather have lost part of my income than the life and times I had there.)
As long as the BA accounting is honest, and inefficiencies are rooted out big time, things should fall back onto an even keel,
world events allowing,and passenger confidence being restored.
[ 29 September 2001: Message edited by: Anti-ice ]