Well Andy, no one is listening to your defeatist diatribe.
I would not trust BALPA if I was a pilot for BA. Too many of their reps want to follow in Walsh's footsteps allegedly. But it is typical behaviour for the BA pilots to roll over. Walsh understands them and knows they wouldn't strike. The cabin crew are different, they will not have any new T&C's permanently imposed, just because of a temporary dip in business.
You have conveniently forgotten that BA would be in profit if it wasn't for its fuel hedging. Some manager in a office made a bad decision and now it is being used as a built in excuse to savagedly cut pay and conditions.
In the past when there has been a downturn due to 9/11, SARS, Gulf War, these events were not used opportunistically to cut the pay and conditions of everyone in the airline. This time is no different.
We all know why BA has lost a lot of money without me listing it all here. However:
*Why has the court case featuring a BA Director and 3 senior managers over fuel surcharge price fixing been delayed? They were committed to trial at Southwark earlier this year.
* Where are the two directors sacrificed by Walsh over T5. Where are they working now? Are they still sitting at home on full pay? Why don't they speak of their humiliation, or are they bound by Confidentiality Agreements? Walsh refused to answer that question twice, when posed by MP Louise Ellman at last years Commons Transport Select Committees investigation into the T5 fiasco.
I do not believe anything that the CEO or management of BA say. They have made so many mistakes and gaffs, they are totally unreliable.
Whether BA survives or not isn't dependant on the current T&C's of its employees. If poverty pay and conditions were the holy grail of running an airline, Aer Lingus would not be in the state it is. Is this the future for BA?
No way!!
Last edited by Stall Pusher; 14th June 2009 at 12:09.