Again, here we go with the BASSA 'It's personal' nonsense. It's not! Is it really so hard for you to see that this isn't Willie Walsh doing this on a whim, this is the whole Leadership Team and the board of directors doing this? And changing the leader won't change the policy; believing that it is is BASSAs comfort blanket of denial, so that they don't have to look outside into the big bad world and realise they do have to change.
Is it not personal? Is management not after us? They placed a wall at Waterside and allowed anyone to write whatever they wanted on it. What actions, except that they removed the wall a couple of days later, were taken?
Management has been bloating to the media with heavily exaggerated figures on our salaries and compared us to Virgin Atlantic and mistakingly forgot, I should imagine (?), to include their allowances which are paid downroute. They have compared our salaries to those of LCCs when we are a premium airline with a different clientele.
I think management is aiming for us. It is very rich of WW to mention our salaries considering he's making almost £800000 a year. He's making more money than the President of the United States.
I'm also interested in learning how the present CEO is damaging our brand? Apart from the T5 debacle from which BA have now recovered, we have better punctuality than ever and a reasonably good ground experience. Our safety record remains solid. The only damage thats occuring to the brand is through the variable onboard service (who's responsible for that?) and the long history or strikes in BA (hmm, who's responsible for that one too, and has been since before WW even joined the company?). You cannot blame Willie for your unions failings
He has refused to take responsibility for the price fixings. He has failed to increase the share value to the company's shareholders. He has managed to turn the entire company against us cabin crew. He has completely ruined CRM. That is something which will take years to recover.
We are responsible for the onboard service but we can only deal with what we have. If the company decides to make changes, and we have seen some great changes since WW took over, what are we supposed to do? We are not the only ones who have been threatening to go on strike over the years. The pilots threatened to take industrial action not too long ago.