BA have not made a profit - boo bloody hoo.
I flew with BA LHR-YYC a while ago and was amazed to see a cruise relief pilot. This is a single sector duty, ( cannot remember flight time) What is the extra cost for sector pay, flight pay, hotel accommodation and away from base allowance just to have a relief pilot kipping in the bunk!!
I have operated UK-YYC lots of times and only two crew, there is no need for a relief pilot! How many BA flights are operated in this throw money down the drain manner?
Whilst on a BA flight Singapore-LHR I was chatting to the crew they had been staying at the expensive Raffles hotel.
BA get off and night stop in Cyprus when all the charter boys are operating straight back to the UK.
It’s about time they got in the real world, they only have themselves to blame and there is plenty of cost cutting to have.