BALPA and BA talks breakdown

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Shaka Zulu

The likelyhood of it loosing money (see BA's track record) is far higher.

Very true, it does sound like we are seeing the same old pattern all over again. In their last venture, BA bought a job lot of second hand previous generation long lease aircraft. Once they had nicked the LHR slots that came with them, they were at a loss to know what to do next. “Make do, get into profit or be sold or closed” was the message with an associated sob story about the parent not being able to afford to invest in more suitable equipment (£350mil would have helped). The result was a five year experiment in probing and testing less well represented staff to see what they could get away with until the leases were more manageable. It was also a very handy vheicle for rubbing out BAR.

At one point, Baconnect were cancelling flights and letting their customers down due to lack of cabin crew. At the same time, BAConnect had cabin crew on loan to BA London discretely “helping out” on 767 long-haul. Under order from Waterside no doubt. Another test to see what they could get away with perhaps, or another manager after some Waterside smarty points for keeping Maniline going. Shame he neglected his own patch.

Was very tempting to go up to the departure lounge and tell passengers that they weren’t going to be travelling today, because their regional cabin crew had been sent to work for another company for the weekend and were currently in Barbados. I wish I had.

You have every reason to be wary of their assurance.


As for their request for less pay-points. Didn’t the pilots agree to this in the Highlands and Islands Division? Look what happened to that.