They have stayed above the market rate, because they have a strong union.
Or possibly because they have weak management, whose purpose it served to build up an empire. But Mike Street has gone now.
BA made increasing profits, year on year, until the world went mad, whilst paying crew above market rate.
When did BA last pay a dividend to the people who
own the company?
£B1 or £B1.2 does not make the slightest bit of difference to the employee, but taking 25% out of terms and conditions does.
That is the BASSA-centric, infantilised view.
"If costs are cut, they must be coming out of my wages" The only people who have proposed a pay cut for the cabin crew are BASSA themselves. BA's proposals centred on improving operational efficience, crewing the aircraft at a sensible level and getting the crew to do an honest days work for above market rate.