Re Caped Crews Aider
Dear CCA
For the record I am a skipper on the 737 at LGW and earn £54K - is that so different from what you earn, and way above market rate? I didn't think so.
With regard to LGW pilots being limited to 720 hours, this is true. But given the nature of the operation that actually means working pretty hard in terms of duty days, due to multiple short sectors (My next tour is lgw/man/lgw/man. nightstop, then man/lgw/edi/lgw) - much harder to get to 720 that way rather than long daytrips to the Canaries (I know, I've done both).
So lets give the mutual mud slinging a rest (from both sides) - I doubt that there is much truth in the BA pilots to fly for GB start of the thread (except perhaps a few over 55 Dan Air guys who won't want to do an A320 course) - far more likely that the operations will end up merging (Rod doesn't seem keen on franchises) and we will all be working together.
SO WE COULD ALL START BY BEING A LITTLE MORE FRIENDLY !!