Lets just be honest. We in BA want a strike. We want a 20% basic pay rise accross the board to put us back to where we were a decade ago.
easyJet and Ryanair are paying their pilots more over the first 20 years of their careers than BA are.
For the standards and hassle and working environment that BA imposes they should pay a premium. We are never going to get that by being nice. So lets be nasty.
Damn it. Their aircraft don't fly without us. Their revenue stream dies without us. BA is weak at the moment they have no cash and a lot of analyst focus upon them. NOW is the time to strike.
BA are not going to go bankrupt over a tiny increase in their operating costs which a 20% pilot pay increase impose. They aren't.
I say Balerics to Waterside and all the scum therein. WE run this airline. WE move the pax from A to B which generates the ticker sales. WE should dictate - yes dictate - what goes on in BA. Not BASSA. Not Rod.
If the removal of communist unilateral dissarminst socialist Darke makes us more militant then so much the better.
The cadets have been screwed for years. Eurogatwick have been crewed for years. Regional have been screwed. CitiExpress are being screwed. Golden Runways will be next and they must not stick their heads in the sand. Forunately with the retirement of so many LHR barons the balanace of opinion and militancy is changing.
Johns stalking horse will result in a more combatitive GS who will in turn alter the position of all CC's.
Good.
Peter - yes I do work for Mainline but champion the low costs.