It is extremely important that these open skies cockpits are populated at least in part by mainline pilots.
If there is no expression of interest say from a junior fo to bid for an Open skies command ( surely there will be financial reward for a promotion) then management will say and justifiably so that it will be crewed from direct entries.
This gives BA carte blanche to create whatever T Cs it wishes.
This hugely weakens the bargaining position of BACC , whose bottom line position must be that OS cannot be used to undermine and/or diminish the current mainline package and mainline work.
People like stormin norman pitifully miss the point and unfortunately see themselves in a BA cocoon divorced from real world economies and factors.
This is not about going on strike for someone not in the company .This is about going on strike to protect what you have.
BACC , while I wish you every success , you may have a considerable education program to undertake to ensure the result which you most correctly seek.
ps I am not a BA pilot but pilots unions everywhere are watching this one extremely closely.
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Last edited by vikena; 22nd Jan 2008 at 07:40.