Nope. I certainly don't hate CC and I havent seen any vitriolic postings on here from flight crew expressing that either.
I do have some strong opinions about BASSAs current methods - but that opinion is backed up with facts. Hatred.. ? No - hatred is totally inaccurate.
I do hear that some of the posting on BASSA Crew forum are really quite quite threatening to flight crew. I guess that's what you get if a union pumps out inaccurate & Goebbelsesque documents deliberately designed to inflame and incite. Making forum posters accountable for their postings and doing away with the anonymity would be a good start.
BIDLINE
Ask any flight Ops manager whether they want to get rid of Bidline. His answer will be no. Why ? Simply because it puts the onus on the pilots to make achieve the flying hours each month. If we dont achieve the required hours we lose a significant amount of pay at the end of the month. We are also placed on a naughty list when we have around 800 hrs and are at risk from being taken off flights due to CAA limitations (not industrial limits note). Do you also want the evil that is Draft assign - as that is an integral part of Bid Line rules.
Yes, there is an extra cost to administer BLRs, but that cost is absolutley minuscule when compared to the massive efficiencies BA gets from the flight crew.
Now, lets get back to the issue in hand.