The news is now official.
- KA freight cut down to 3 aircraft (this just to avoid TUPE legislation)
- Classics retire on schedule
- Remaining 4 BCFs to go to CX
Crews offered the following options
- Stay in KA on the airbus or 744 (MAN) if you have the seniority.
- Join CX at MAN on the BCF or Classic as reqd.
- Loss of seniority, ie at the bottom of CX list
- keep seat subject to rapid command upgrade
- keep year of service increments but transfer to CX freight scale NOT the recently improved KA scale.
- years of KA service recognised for staff travel
Redundancy not even mentioned or offered.
Looks like a mass exodus from KA (not to CX) with pilots positioning themselves for airbus ratings or 744 ratings. Not to mention legal challenges (TUPE, constructive dismissal), industrial unrest, IFALPA bans.
When will CX management learn that negotiation and consultation always brings better results than smashing somebody over the head?
