British Airways - CC Industrial Relations & Negotiations

[flapsforty]

Sunny, your point was raised, argued, re-raised, re-argued and so on a few more times in the previous thread on this subject.
Come to that, it has been discussed on this and other PPRuNe forums more times than I care to remember.

Summarizing what I have come across over the past 10 years on PPRuNe, here are the reasons for the difference in pay:

• Pilots train for longer than cabin crew
• Pilot training is more expensive than cabin crew training
• The skill/talent set required to become a pilot is less widely found in the general population than the skill/talent set needed to become a flight attendant
• Piloting is a male dominated job, FA-ing is a female dominated job. Male jobs get paid better than female jobs. UK Gender pay gap currently at 20%.

Pilot pay is irrelevant to this thread. As stated by TightSlot above.
In the previous thread, many (supposed) pilots have brought up the deal made by BALPA as an example of what BASSA should have done.
Hence perhaps the continued comparisons between the two groups.