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.
It does not make sense but please think of the redeployment plan. BA have stated that no crew has been placed in this plan before, which should obviously be some sort of reassurance. Mixed Fleet will grow quickly and as I have said, their figures which refers that it is going to take at least 10 years before it has 40% crew are based on statistics. All they have done is looked at some numbers and multiplied it by 10.
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.
They don't want us on Mixed Fleet nor any other fleet in the company. We are according to management both too expensive and inefficient. LGW SF, which is the cheapest fleet in the company, is obviously too expensive as well.
Initially, BA said they would recruit only a couple of hundreds crew to Mixed Fleet. They have now changed this number to 1,250. Why? It might take a couple of years but please don't believe them when they say that in 10 years this fleet will only represent 40% of all crew. It will take less than that.