Quite unbelievable
I am absolutely amazed that a group that calls themselves "Professionals" can even contemplate holding the travelling public to ransom in the 21st Century. I used to have some respect for pilots at British Airways, indeed I travel exclusively with your airline when I'm not using private transport.
I am sure your dispute is genuine and you are not all following in the hallowed footsteps of your working class colleagues, but surely there must be another way? I am not angry at you as a group, just incredibly dissappointed. My anger is directed at BA management.
As for BA management, who seem to be pretty feckless at the best of times, how can you allow this to happen? As a leader in a large concern, I would never allow the future of my business, or indeed the welfare of other employees to be at the hands of a few. Do surgeons or lawyers hold their employers to ransom? No, and that's because they are managed by intelligent people that would never allow that situation to arise. So why have BA management been so negligent?
I won't do the usual thing and threaten to take my business elsewhere, because I take pride in flying British as an expat (do you still see yourselves as such?) But this is exactly why I cannot stand living in a country that allows this sort of carry on.
This company needs to modernise or it will die. And I for one will be very sad when that happens.