Originally Posted by bluepilot
Instead of just allocating commands in GSS cargo operation why dont you work with the pilots already there to get them onto the BA list so you work together?
We'd like the work in house, but BA don't want it, GSS management don't want it and the GSS pilots do not have BALPA representation. It's a bit difficult trying to force people on to our seniority list if nobody else wants it. GSS is a limited exception, only allowed 4 aircraft. Going all out on strike to force GSS to be amalgamated would be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The existing arrangement gave BA, us and GSS something. It was a compromise solution.
Why didnt you support the BACON cc drive in getting a mainline seniority number (pilot merger)?
We did. We used the leverage we had in the RJ100 fleet handover to force BA to agree to put the CX RJ pilots on our seniority list. It was the CX company council how turned the offer down.
do you really give a flying stuff about the pilots already recruited by openskys?
Yes, but if it comes down to them or me then I choose me. Tell me you'd do otherwise.
OpenSkies have made an offer to BALPA to represent Openskies pilots and establish an OpenSkies Company Council. BALPA have not yet responded to our offer.
That is a non-issue. BALPA were invited to represent OS pilots from the word go and there has never been any debate that BALPA would be recognisd there. That sounds like some BA management spin as OS is not being stonewalled by BALPA. However it is hard to have representation in an airline that does not yet exist and has no pilots, aircraft or routes to speak of.
therefore BALPA are once again on a one way street here!! have the openskys pilots ( very few maybe) been consulted??? i think not!
Caveat emptor. If you sign up to a company in the middle of a large industrial dispute then you can expect life to be complicated. Whether or not the OS pilots have BALPA representation is irrelevant to the ongoing dispute between BA and the BA Company Council.