You may as well recognise reality Hand Solo, HomerJ and the like. We already operate 146s, and if you truly think BA management will have a fleet partly operated by high cost mainline guys, and partly by us profitable dudes, you really.......must have passed the BA Lego test.
You chaps really do live in another galaxy don't you? It's easy to see how much CRM and Leadership, community spirit etc etc you have by the way you have Secret Squirrel and Capt. PB reacting. Your well known patronising attitude is merely amusing, -
(some of us were instructing on fast jets when you had trainer wheels on your bicycle!)
- but sad.
Grow up and smell the roses. BALPA will not even squeak over the ex CFE blokes currently flying the RJs. They will sell them down the river over some sort of deal for the 'real' mainliners. We WILL have the RJS, and I'll wager that those of CFE that come to work with us will have a happier and more secure future than the ones who stay at Gatwick. (We don't hate our cabin crew, we rather like them) For those who DO stay at LGW, my sympathy is all with Secret Squirrel . Good luck mate, you have all our support, and you will, I am sure, retain your command over some spotty faced erk who can build a lego tower. Anyone who followed the threads on the CFE integration will be familiar with the nauseating hypocrisy coming from the mainliners, and the inevitability of the way a lot of good guys were screwed royally. Now they think they will do it to BRAL/Manx, anothe profitable and (relatively) happy independent sucked into BA. The extent of the BALPA involvement in the so called imaginary SCOPE can be seen from the amount of comms between mainline BALPA and our CC. ZILCH. Looking after their own. Again! Do you REALLY think BA management will let you set a precedent on a costly exercise like Scope? Scotty may very well actually beam you up before THAT happens.
And as a final note on the so called BA pilot skills......funny thing our sim chop rate has accelerated dramatically since we started taking the BA 'product'.
Nothing personal guys, just fact.
