I really think that crew are being scared by people who have not even read the new offer.
It quite simply does not make sense for BF to employ people on New Fleet while leaving us with no work. That would eat up all the savings he gets from NEw Fleet. Why pay people not to work. It just does not make sense.
BA is going to make hugh savings with New Fleet and it will gradualy get bigger as we gradually retire and leave. He does not want us to work on new fleet. He is happy to make his big savings with New Fleet as we get smaller. It will take years.
Having said that he will probably come back and ask for more efficiency savings from us at some time in the future but we all know that there are savings that could have been offered now by our union and we might have not been in this mess.
Striking will just cause him to sack some crew and that will only make New Fleet bigger.
There are lots of things that I dont like. Like Willie Walsh, the low pay being offered on New Fleet and the way BASSA have handled this whole issue and made it worse. But BA, with the help of BASSA, have just laid a golden egg eg. New Fleet and they will not give it up now that it has been laid. We just now need the union to stop scwabling about staff travel and get on and look after all our interests and work with the company.
It is too late now, thanks to our useless union, they are pushing ahead with New Fleet and there is no stopping it now.