Ask around...... you will find that VCC's working as pursers or CSD's will have been specifically trained for that role and a great numbers of them are former CSD's and pursers and probably have been such for longer that you have been flying.
I'm quite sure. But the company is happy for crew with one years' flying experience to work up as purser from standby when some of the other main crew onboard have been flying for 20 years.
This isn't about experience. If it was, the company would 'work up' crew based on seniority on a normal day (outside of strike time) and not just based on who was on standby.
This is about recognising the airline's loyal
permanent cabin crew whose fight this is afterall, and who have opted to Back BA as opposed to towing the union line.
Why is WW still prolonging this hugely damaging industrial action?
Couple of reasons. One being that he can't give what Bassa/Unite are demanding.
The other because all that's been offered is the "suspension" of the strikes, and not the complete cancellation of them. If he gives what Bassa is asking for, all that will happen is we'll probably find ourselves being sent another ballot paper and find more strikes being called a few months down the line.