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Old 15th Jun 2010, 13:07
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demomonkey
 
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The View From Above

Here is a photograph of LHR taken on 5th June 2010 (a 'strike' day).

Photos: - Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net

If you notice at the bottom centre of the photo is the maintenance area which is normally predominated by BA aeroplanes undergoing routine maintenance. You can see that there are a approximately 15 Airbus (SH) sized a/c parked up which is less than 1/5 of the Airbus fleet or ~6% of the total fleet. The other larger aircraft (LH) in the vicinity are typical of normal operations. Up at the top centre of the photograph you can see T5 is looking busy as usual with slightly fewer a/c on T5a which would be expected given the SH figures published by BA.

So BASSA, here it is in hard copy; BA can and will survive without you. Poltergeist, you may think that you're only allowed to have an opinion if; (a.) you work for BA; (b.) are CC; (c.) voted YES and (d.) went on strike. However as events have demonstrated we all have an opinion and we (the rest of us) think BASSA are following a suicidal strategy. Ignoring reality won't make the hard facts any more palatable. You might not read BA's emails but this photo of the real world very closely resembles their 'propaganda' and contradicts BASSA's 'facts'.

BlueUpGood summaried very precisely the viewpoint of the 45,000+ of us who don't subscribe to your union's lunacy. BA can and will survive without BASSA.

These are my personal views and not those of any other individual or organisation.

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