British Airways - CC Industrial Relations Mk VI

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Reduction in headcount by 1000 net crew

There are clearly two points of view, the fact and the way that this is being spun.

Fact.
We all know that the voluntary severance agreement suited a certain section of the crew community. The group could be described as fairly senior, original contract and have been thinking of retiring for a while but waiting for the next severance deal.

Bingo, due to the proposed planned future flying program one came along last year, just apply and if senior enough, back came an offer of VOLUNTARY redundancy in exchange for circa 20-35K. The offer was dependant on the cost reduction negotiations with BASSA being successful.

Come November 2009, no meaningful BASSA negotiation on cost saving, crew compliment reduction imposed and severance offers were actioned.

Any other interpretation is just misleading spin.