BA pilots have accepted %RPI for the last 3 years.
The largest part of any company's expenditure is the wages bill. This can be up to 48% of total expenditure and BA is no exception (c.45%).
So exactly how much of this 45% goes to those 'greedy' pilots - just 8% !!!
Thats not 8% of the 45% - Thats 8% of total wages bill !
Why does BA struggle to make a profit? Certainly not because it has a high pilot / aircraft ratio - Quite the opposite.
It is because it has the largest number of ancilliary employees per airframe of any airline in Europe (except possibly Iberia).
Very little has changed since Ayling.