Interesting. When Willie Walsh first said he'd remove the travel perks, the message from the strike camp was that a) he couldn't or wouldn't and b) they weren't much good anyway as you could get a firm seat for less with the low cost carriers.
I was listening to Simon Calder's travel programme yesterday on the radio and there were a good few cabin crew phoning in to put their side of the story across, as is their right, and the subject of staff travel came up and complaints of too many family members using seats on certain flights was mentioned. It was suggested that staff travel was a privilege that has been abused, and this was met with the reply that staff travel is a profit generating department of BA as a whole. Would those in the know please enlighten me how this might be so ?
SHJ