@Pacamack, very interesting you should say that. Because it was BA that CLOSED the standing conference that led up to the exhaustion of all negotiations....
We've conceded to many of the terms BA require to make the business succesful.
Lower T&C's, no bidline etc etc Everything required to give it a cost base that matches BA's desire...
Any other costs, like training etc is largely irrelevant. We have our OWN training facility.
It's also funny that BA argued the toss about the 'intent' of a certain work coverage rule, Net Low Bidding. They said we were mis-using that rule. Note, the rule was there but the intent was looked at and so changed!
So the MAIN question is, directly put to Willie Walsh I might add:
If we can match point for point the costbase required by BA then can we put those OS pilots on the Mainline Seniority List.
Answer: No
Is it about cost then or a leverage tool?