Why oh Why oh Why
Why aren’t Balpa:
1. Standing up for the FO’s at bmi, why are they only protecting the Captains? Hour after hour is wasted discussing the ins and out of a re-promotion policy that in all likelihood may never happen! whilst FO’s are actually losing their jobs right now!
2. Why hasn’t balpa got rid of the cadet scheme? Or are they turning a blind eye to concede something to bmi so they can live to fight another day and protect more Captains? If these cadets remain after redundancies have been made they will be flying the sectors that some of those FO’s would have flown. Getting rid of this scheme will save FO jobs directly? I wonder whether this scheme would have sailed through the pork barrel buffet at balpa so easily if it was allowing PAYG Captains?
It was less than a month ago that this paragraph appeared in a bmi mainline newsletter – why has it gone from being a major issue to forgotten about? Why haven’t we heard anything since?
‘The issue of cadets is likely to be a major debate at the forthcoming BALPA Annual Delegates’ Conference and we would be delighted to hear your views to take with us to that conference.
We know that a number of you find it disturbing that we should be charging cadets for operating our aircraft at all, but to do it while making full-time, long serving pilots redundant seems particularly distasteful’
3. Why has it taken weeks to announce a VR package that has been in the AFS since before the big bang?
It would be nice to think balpa aren’t just pocketing our monthly fees – I’d like to hope they are seeking legal advice on our behalf (particularly with regards to these cadets) and will keep us updated – yet we’re still waiting and waiting and waiting.