Originally Posted by Fume Event
Under Walsh, BA is on the road to ruin. In over thirty years service with the airline I have never seen such a catastrophic collapse in crew morale and passenger satisfaction.
Funny but the GPMs don't seem to be recording a collapse in passenger satisfaction. Perhaps morale is collapsing because the crew realise they've been led up the garden path by BASSA and management won't crumble this time. BA are taking a hard line on this one. The astonishment amongst crew that BA would dare to suspend CSDs who have bad-mouthed the company in public or spouted union propaganda on company time suggests that they had no idea the company was prepared to play hard.
Although someone has said here before that Walsh would only be replaced with someone empowered with the same agenda, Walsh's tenure at Aer Lingus and the current state of that airline, demonstrates that he made a huge mistake there putting the airline into the low cost model. That alone has ensured its demise.
Nothing to do with Ryanair then?
Sooner or later the penny will drop that BA was never in a "fight for survival", it was a pack of lies. If the company was in such dire straights temporary measures to save money would have been invoked as before, such as the closing of First cabins.
Why close a profitable cabin? It was only ever closed because crew refused to work harder on short handed flights. Now BA can keep the cabins open and earning revenue by making the CSD work a trolley.
However this management have tried to enforce the illusion that there has been a "structural change" in the business travel market, whilst at the same time having a mock up of the new First cabin in the the CRC for crew to view.
One presumes the other airlines and IATA are helping to enforce this 'illusion'? And in your numerous other guises on this and other forums you chide BA for it's failure to invest in the product. Don't you want a new First class seat now?
There could have been huge cost savings running for months this year as Unite/BASSA offered, but it was rejected by Walsh. Why if the company was in such a bad way, would a CEO refuse voluntary concessions, preferring imposition and a strike at the worst possible time in the calendar for the airline?
Best possible time you mean! No high revenue business pax and no goodwill or support fom the public either.
Yet as a negotiator for IALPA Walsh did such a good job, that some senior pilots at Aer Lingus earn over Euros 300,000 a year!!!! I find it hard to deal with such hypocrisy. One moment he fights for better T&C's as an IALPA rep, then as CEO of the same company he shuts the airline down for a week locking out employees.
I guess he just excels at whatever he does. Not good news for you!
I can assure you all here that next Monday, the game will be up for Walsh and his cronies.
It'll all be over in a month, and you'll be back on a trolley working one down and being grateful for it.