Watersidewonker wrote:
The thing that sometimes gets me is that if you are earning a good wage for what you do why would you want to lose that
Who, other than your union has suggested that you should lose any of your wage? The company has suggested that LHR crews fall in line with manning levels which are working perfectly well at other centres. This may affect the details of who pours the coffee etc., but think yourself lucky that you are not (so far) being made compulsorily redundant like so many of your colleagues and thousands of other workers throughout other industries. Wake up and do your bit to save your jobs.
Miss M
Your flights may well have been full, but what is important is the revenue gained from the flight, not how many pax are aboard. The likes of Ryanair but bums on seats at a very low unit cost, but they do not have the staffing idiosyncrasies that BA seem to have. Stick to your guns and you may find out the hard way.
Edited to add: In our office we had a sign on the wall that we ignored at our peril:
"THE CUSTOMER IS KING!"