Skipness - with respect, I wouldn't dare interfere with your professional status as I assume a pilot, I have uptmost respect for that communities integrity and professionalism. I would have no hesitation of flying with you or any of your very highly trained and industry respected colleagues at BA.
If you are stating you have confidence issues with BA engineering in general you should raise that through your safety review board. Just because and employee or group of employees are angry does not mean in any way shape or form that they would compromise safety. I would therefore respectively request that you retract your statement as it is very damaging in itself.
To suggest the thread is disintegrating into waffle and personal attacks immediately following your personal attack on my own professional integrity is rich!
Please get back to the subject in hand, yes I am very sure there are people at BA who would love for this thread to be shut down and bannished from history. As stated earlier, a well known technique of Joseph Gorbels.
One thing, i fail to understand this from your post;
However if the pilots strike does go ahead, and given the current set up with Open Lies I think you're finished if you don't kill this stone dead
That really does not mke sense, so it's ok for the Pilots to kill BA stone dead with a strike (which incidently I fully support them) but wrong for me to voice an opinion about the current problems at BA? Come on, I'm not saying very much different than what's out there in the media, clearly BA as usual is leking like a sieve. You may well know of other forums which the media and others glean information from, including BA staff approaching the media directly with information.
What IMHO is going to kill the brand stone dead, as you say, is an arrogant and disconnected management team, check out the following article from Travel Weekly, on an HR point it states;
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If anything should worry us in the long term, it's BA's apparent failure to get the 'people stuff' right.
And great some positive news, T5 going to full service on Saturday.... we wait and see.