NACUD thanks for your rhetoric there but you clearly have no valuable insight into the issues at stake here. BA pilots like many other airlines pay subscription to BALPA the union. BALPA as a result work hard to protect our job security and terms and conditions. These wiser men than myself have decreed there is a clear and present threat to those aforementioned conditions and have spent a great deal of time to illustrate that threat in newsletters and emails etc. It is now upto the BA pilots to vote on what action to take.
Of course we will fight to protect our terms and conditons -it does not make BA pilots arrogant or selfish - just normal!!! And whilst you wax lyrical about the changing environment and other airlines adjusting their business models and us BA lot being inflexible and holding paying joe public to ransom - why not ask yourself why all other airlines taking advantage of openskies -i.e. Air France from LHR to US, are not also trying this 'secondary pilot workforce manoeuvre that BA are? Why they are content to just use their mainline pilots? We smell a rat and will fight for it. Just because you are too weak to do so - return to your cupboard and cower whilst we take a stand!