Moonchild and
Blueskybird your more than welcome, and im looking forward to seeing some new faces around our little base. Moans and groans are part of life in the airline and its no different else where. With new shorthaul routes coming in next year, and providing this absolute balls-up with ManPower can be resolved asap LGWSF looks set for a nice bit of expansion.
Blueskybird Im glad you will be joining a union when you join as we need all the help we can get at the moment
. The situation is critical but fingers crossed we can pull though it as one, and slowly start enstowing trust in the company again, although up until now it feels like we have been
over and over again.
We arent expecting a mircale any time soon, or to wake up the next day and realise its been all a horrible dream, this will be a drawn out procedure which will take its time, but like ive said aslong as we all join the unions and make our voices heard, an follow all routes nessesscery to make sure we are treated fairly things will start to slowly improve. With LHR WW and EF making some noise about our cause aswell, we will get their attention come hell or high water!!
Best of luck everyone and if you want to know anything then give me a shout and im sure
NewBAgr wouldnt mind answering a few questions either.
Rob x
PS
As for your question regarding
transfers to LHR WW, at the moment we dont have a set time period/number of crew to be moved up the road. I believe the old agreement meant you would wait around 2-4 years and then you would move, but at the moment people have waited for around 7 years (they left last month). At the moment, on the rare occasion that there is a movement of crew, we are offered
LHR EF and not
LHR WW. Once you have been there a few years you are then offered
WW.