Very predictable, Hand Solo. Your attitude is the usual one presented by BA mainline. Its not so much that your theory of wanting to maintain your Ts and Cs is wrong, it's just that your tenuous grasp on reality is insulting. If you look around the shorthaul route network, you will see an ever increasing amount of work being taken by the Lo Cost boys. This is not because the pax prefer their paint jobs, it is because they are CHEAPER.
At BRAL, MANX, CITIEXPRESS, whatever you wish to call us, we are cheaper, and much more profitable than BAR.
(Have BAR ever indeed been profitable?????)
So, if we don't take your business, (in RJs, Embs, or Fireball XL5), it's as sure as the pope is a Catholic that someone will. I have always regarded BA as being the benchmark for Airline Pilot salaries. I did when I was in the RAF, and I still do. The thing is though, unless you let common sense percolate into your attitude, you will end up like British Leyland, RootesGroup, the Coal Board, and many other industries where short sighted unions f###ed up the whole deal. Virgin, BMi, not to mention the Americans are just slavering at the chance to get more of a longhaul toehold, with the cheepies already two feet in the door in our business. Your response doesn't seem to acknowledge that somehow, our own business was amalgamated with BAR, and we instantly started issuing profit warnings.
I don't expect you to agree, far less understand -
- but get it through your head that if BAR costs are not lowered, there will BE no regional flying for anyone. Just look at what your airline did to CFE. A small operator, highly profitable airline, (just like us) was bought by BA, and put on BA Ts and Cs, and management practices. Do you have the ability to guess why those self same routes then started to lose money? Tricky really, isn't it, or is your opinion still that this was all propaganda started by the big bad management?
GET A LIFE!!!!!
