I hardly think we can afford to start swinging the axe in the Dispatchers direction, we barely have enough of them as it is. How many groups in this airline do you see working 6 days in 7 and doing 16hr double shifts on a regular basis? Yeah Service Air may do it at half the price, but judging by some of the god-awful dispatchers we get down route I think our punctuality would be history if we lowered the very high standards we currently have. Plus who would bale the company out next time the computer wizards totally foul up DCS. Remind me again how much that computer failure cost us?
Having just read Pin-heads previous post, I'd like to correct his delusion that BA pilots represent 18% of the wage bill. I think you'll find that according to the companies own figures pilots wages are in low single figures percentages in terms of the total wage bill. Don't have the exact figures to hand, but I think it works at about 1.2% of BAs total costs.
[ 06 September 2001: Message edited by: Carnage Matey! ]