What would I do? Impose the below:
- Preserve Ts & Cs for present crew to enable them to live under the financial conditions they have grown used to and service mortgages with, but under new efficiency measures for London turnarounds, disruption, and monthly travel payment
- Pension off any current crew who want to go under VR
- Hire to New Fleet from today
- Remove all high-cost routes from old crew (irrelevant with monthly travel payment - gains efficiency saving immediately)
- Ensure all crews fly as a crew with flight crew for whole trip
- Introduce more overseas bases in conjunction with the IB merger, expansion of OpenSkies, and establishment of position not so dependent on high-cost Heathrow
- Give PCCC a kick to get things moving
Won't hurt current crew one iota (except those cheating the system to go to NRT each month) and European crew will simply be in the air more in return for less time waiting around at T5, and enables long-term competitiveness.