With the revelation about cabin crew and pilot average pay in IBERIA, I will be urging BASSA to accede to Willie Walsh's demands of market rate plus 10%....... as offered in Spain.
Funny how BA never compared its cabin crew pay to IBERIA, especially as it planned to merge with the company. Now we know why!
Naturally, no pilot or cabin crew member in IBERIA will be exactly rooting for this merger. BA will be far more profitable anyway as a stand alone business than it propping up IBERIA in the future. As BA exits its negative profit strategy in 2011, IBERIA will still be paying its crews 30% more than the current rates in BA.
What a marriage made in heaven. Well down Willie.