Did I hear correctly that BA operated full VCC crews on repatriation flights because BASSA refused mixed crews (main and VCC), if its true, imagine the public response to this if it made the press, but, is it true ?
Sorry, but that is not true. BASSA offered both the disruption alleviation and the additional alleviation to reduce downroute rest to legal minimum on the repatriation flights.
BA were too short of crew to cover and used mixed crews of volunteers and real cabin crew plus a couple of just volunteer crews. I posted on this when I got the message. It surprised me because the approach had been (until this weekend) that the identity of all volunteers needed to be top secret.
I worked a trip with a mixed crew of volunteers and strikers myself.
Perhaps we are not as viscious as some posters on here suggest?