FRying, the problem is that during the good years nobody has the backbone to fight for something. Everybody is fat dumb and happy, thinking about how 'fortunate' they are with a short time to command without a seniority list and their next flat screen TV. I've been hammering on this issue (lack of backbone and foresight) for
years only to be laughed at and be told to 'just leave if you're not happy.'
During those proverbial good years the ones with enough foresight will have figured it out and will have left, leaving only fresh new meat/cadets, naive positive thinkers/dreamers (like NSF, sorry Norman) who think a CEO is their biggest friend and BALPA which is
way behind the power curve. And then the whole cycle starts again, with everyone (except management of course!) getting an even smaller piece of the pie during the next downturn...
With so much sh!t happening in 'unionized' airlines (see also Thomas Cook!) BALPA is slowly proving union basher like Real Slim Shady, Leo Hairy Camel and others right. BALPA have been hugely outmaneuvered, wasting precious resources and credibility ('keeping the powder dry') by focusing on stupid little battles but loosing the big picture and the war.
Maybe it really is a
Britsh Airways Line Pilot Association after all?
