bluepilot: a pleasure, all BA pilots have access to our bid results (a transparent system where everyone sees who bid for, and got what seat/aircraft)
The 318 operation was always forecast to be very senior and that's what has happened, BALPA did a great job in negotiating the conditions.
I saw an Open Skies crew in JFK recently , I happened to know one of them, on asked 'how's it going' he started to tell me about the load factor, I interrupted him and said no, I meant how are
you doing. Not that they're sensitive about these things at all then...
