Hand Solo,
I have not read such a lot of common sense on Pprune for a long time - congratulations!!
I get a little frustrated when some BACE pilots refer to the RJs as 'our 'planes'; what tosh - they are all owned by BA. BA wants them flown as cheaply as possible and if they could get a load of non Nationals to do it at non National rates they would be delighted.
BA refuses to have ALL the BACE pilots on the same list as BA. I agree that I have heard that the BA reps are offering access to the BA Master Seniority List and to share the 146/RJ opportunities. It would seem reasonable for BACE pilots to have exclusive access to the RJ/146s they are bringing to BACE and for BA mainline pilots to have the same rights to the 16RJs being transferred with both communities sharing in any extra RJs.
It is alleged that the BACE captains are preventing any agreement at the expense of the BACE FOs. A correspondent is correct; many of the CE captains are quite happy with what they are doing but many of the FOs want access to the greater BA variety and salaries. It's the FOs who should be telling their reps what they want, not the other way round.
Anyway, it may be for a temporary period only. I am informed that BA wants rid of all the RJ/146s and replaced with new 50/70 seat Embraers/Dorniers so BACE pilots will be flying all of them without any access to the mainline list whatsoever, if they are not careful!