Sorry, but the pay levels for an essentially 'unskilled' job have gotten seriously out of balance in BA. How can you have 3 weeks training and fall into a job that outpays pilots (on the old contract rate). The CSD, whose job BA has now made 'working' used to hide under the stairs all flight reading books and watching videos! Any wonder that when one went up to the flight deck to have the cabin log signed for 'CSDs office chair cover worn', the pilots burst out laughing! Course it was worn mate! CSD pay is more like triple Virgin chief pay. Old contract main crew rates are double. Ask yourself if this can continue given 14,000 crew?
What is facing the industry is an ordered shutdown of BA- it cannot compete with the opposition with this straightjacket around its neck. For the little that is being asked of the crew, I am amazed that they are taking it to the wall. Utter insanity, but given the stern socialist nature of the union, I smell ulterior political motives somewhere. These unionistas killed off the British shipbuilding industry and car building, and they are intentionally leading the staff down a political as well as economic road. If we let them, they will have the British airline industry too. Settlement is not what the company needs. It is complete termination of the old contract. The new contract cabin crew work hard (and comparably with the opposition). The division is breathtaking.