British Airways - CC Industrial Relations & Negotiations

[ottergirl]

For bks and Balboy

Hi there
There is no clear answer to your question just yet. I can say that there are no New-Entrant training courses planned at present although the planning is only just into the new year. Bill Francis when asked was very clear that, even with the reductions he is putting through at the moment, we are likely to still find ourselves with a crew surplus for the winter (although it may be that it varies from rank to rank and base to base so there will be transfers actioned). As to whether we will need more crew for the summer schedule, he will not know until the summer schedule is planned but he wouldn't be led into speculating! It seems it may be a few months anyway, so don't put your life on hold just in case.
Sorry if that isn't what you were hoping for.
Regards
Ottergirl

PS The rest of your post is even harder to answer. The proposed New Fleet would save money by the crew working more or less to Scheme and paid on an hourly rate. That said, IFCE management say that the terms of the new fleet are still available for discussion so none the wiser.