Mind you, I don't see any cutbacks at BALPA HQ,company cars all round appears still to be the norm there.
As are lunches,dinners, business / First class travel and swanning around to "conferences"( Page 9) : but don't take my word for it, check their
accounts and see for yourself how much they pay out on legal expenses, Arkwright has every right to feel aggrieved(Cost of Defending members Page 5, compared to living the highlife.
Nevertheless, if that isn't enough to make you question what use your subs are put to, perhaps a sidestep from the path trodden by all the other lemmings, coupled with an oblique look, past your rose tinted glasses might open your eyes to reality.
The poor b8ggers at bmiBaby and bmi may well get reports and corpoRat spin on some well fed and watered meetings with management about their crisis, but there will little substance to the rhetoric.
In the meantime, those with 737 ratings who have taken off the rose tinted glasses are now applying to that most hated non union airline FR: when BALPA lets you down........there is always good old FR!!
PS Before any smart Alec asks for proof of who has applied / joined to join FR why not simply put up a new thread and ask them to come out of the closet. Oh, and don't forget the former Excel guys either.