British Airways vs. BASSA (current Airline Staff Only)

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My offer to you - Heathrow

If you are not a member of the union, I am offering you the opportunity to accept the
assurances outlined in this letter.

Pay
I can confirm that there will be no changes to your incremental pay and you will
continue to receive rises until you reach the top of the scale for your grade.

Basic Pay
I am also offering you a two year pay deal that guarantees you will receive a pay rise
in 2011/12 and 2012/13.

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Year one 2011/12 the company will increase base pay based on December
2010 RPI and capped at 2.9%.

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Year two 2012/13 the company will increase base pay based on December
2011 RPI and capped at 3%

Your next pay review will be from February 2013.

The new fleet
The mixed flying fleet for new crew, with separate terms and conditions and
bargaining rights will begin flying on 1 November 2010. There will be a separate
negotiating body for the new fleet, which will not discuss your terms and conditions.

Assurances for you
I know that you have some questions about what the introduction of the new fleet
means to you. To continue to demonstrate my commitment to you and to address
these questions, I am offering you the following assurances.

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Your terms and conditions – I can assure you that your existing contractual terms
will be maintained for the future, unless amended through negotiation.

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Part-time – I will continue to honour commitments to make part-time offers to all
crew on existing lists by March 2011. The offer will be on existing fleets, terms
and conditions. Future part-time opportunities will continue to be available.

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Access to route network – I intend to ensure a fair and transparent distribution of
routes to all fleets, based on commercial need.

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Access to aircraft type – I intend to deploy new aircraft based on commercial
need across existing and new fleets. New aircraft will be introduced on a fair and
transparent basis across all the company’s fleets. Your existing terms, conditions
and fleet agreements will apply when new aircraft are operated on existing fleets.
As new aircraft are introduced across all of the company’s fleets, you will be
trained in order to receive the necessary licenses as required by regulation.


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Career structure and opportunities for current crew – The career structure for
current crew within current fleets will continue on the basis of existing practice,
unless amended through negotiation. I can confirm that where there are
opportunities available, existing crew will be promoted on existing terms and
conditions on current fleets.

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Honouring current and future agreements –The importance of honouring
agreements is acknowledged, and the company is committed to working with
current arrangements.

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Ability to transfer fleet/base on current terms and conditions – As with the
current process, there is no guarantee of achieving a transfer. However, I am
committed to continue with the current practice of transfers at Heathrow
between Eurofleet and Worldwide, and to find a mechanism to aid limited
transfers from Gatwick under current terms and conditions.

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Variable pay top up - To provide increased assurance in relation to security of
earnings, the company will introduce a variable pay top up. For those Heathrow
crew whose annual variable pay falls below the average earnings for their grade
and fleet in 2009/10, the company will pay a top up lump sum every year after
the launch of the new fleet. The amount to be topped up will be the difference
between the variable earnings achieved by the crew member and the average
amount for the grade and fleet, if there is a shortfall.

The average variable pay for grade and fleet will include variable pay elements
listed in appendix I. Adjustments will be made for non flying time, including unpaid
leave, sickness, line trainer duties and TU duties and activities.

The payment will be pro-rated for part-time crew.

The payment will only be made to those crew who do not participate in industrial

action.

You will have the opportunity to apply for all roles on the new fleet if you choose.
This will provide promotion opportunities for many current crew. All crew joining the
new fleet will have separate terms and conditions.

People
It is important that there is no victimisation arising from the dispute and the company
will work to ensure that any issues are settled in a mature and professional way.
Where there are disciplinary or grievance cases, it is my intention that these will be
resolved quickly. Where behaviour is found to be serious, any resulting action will be
measured and proportionate.

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Summary
This individual offer maintains your contractual rights at their current level. This offer,
if you choose to accept it, does not reduce or extend them from where they are
today.


This is a genuine offer made on behalf of the company. We are continuing to try and
reach a collective agreement with Unite, with whom we will continue to collectively
bargain. However, after such a long time unsuccessfully trying to reach agreement, I
have decided to make this offer directly to you so that you can move on, with
certainty and reassurance about your future with British Airways.


If you want to accept this individual offer, then please
complete the attached form, and return it in the enclosed
pre-paid envelope. Please do not return the whole
document – this is for you to keep.

FINAL 25/6/10


Appendix I – Variable pay top up


The objective of the crew top up scheme is to provide greater security of variable earnings
for current crew in Heathrow Worldwide and Heathrow Eurofleet. It is designed to mitigate
the concerns over the pace and mix of work transfer to the new ‘Mixed Fleet’. All existing
variable pay will continue to be paid as now e.g. all box payments, all back to backs,
destination payments, excess time premiums, short turnaround payments etc.

The crew variable top up scheme means that everyone at Heathrow will be paid at least the
average amount of variable pay that was earned by their grade and fleet during the 20092010
schedule, regardless of their roster. If crew were to earn less than this, the difference
will be topped up to the amounts shown below on an annual basis.

The minimum amount of variable pay shown below would be increased in line with any base
pay uplift that is applied.

The minimum variable pay full time crew would receive per annum (effective from 1St
November 2010)

FLEET
Worldwide
Worldwide
Worldwide
GRADE
CSD
Purser
Main crew
ANNUAL EQUIVALENT (£)


payments removed available on ESS


Eurofleet
Eurofleet
Eurofleet
CSD
Purser
Main crew

payments removed, available on ESS

Part time crew will receive a pro-rata amount of the above sums.

Allowances included within the minimum variable pay

Worldwide Eurofleet
Long Range Premium (LRP) /Box Payment
Back to Back (B2B)
Destination Payment (DES)
Excess Time Premium (ETP)
Long Range Diversion Payment (DIV)
Long Day Payments (LDP)
Excess Time Premium (ETP)
Base Early Report Payment (BER)
Block Payment (BLK)
Short Turnaround Payment (CAT)

The following categories of allowance will also continue to be paid in the same way as they
are today but do not form part of the crew top up scheme

Meal Allowances Daily Overseas Allowance (DOA)
Nightly Incidental Allowance (NIA) Time Away Allowance (TAA)
Line Trainer Payments Willing to Work
Rest Day Working Telephone Allowance
Exception payments from WW Disruption Language Allowance
Agreement (One Down and Zone Closure)

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Appendix I – Variable pay top up

Deductions from the minimum variable pay

As now variable pay flying allowances will not be paid when you carry out non flying duties. A
daily amount (1/365 of the full time amount shown) will be deducted from the annual
minimum variable pay for each non flying day from the following list.

Sickness
Trade Union Activities and duties
Line Trainer Duties (*)
Unpaid Leave
Grounded Maternity (**)
(*) Current Line Trainer payments will continue to apply
(**) Current Grounded maternity Allowance payments will continue to be made

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Individual offer to non union crew

Name: ………………………………………………………………….
Staff Number …………………………………………………………………..
Fleet: …………………………………………………………………..
Grade: …………………………………………………………………..

I accept the individual offer outlined in this document and confirm that I am
not currently a member of the union, and was not on 25/6/10.

Signed: …………………………………………………………………….
Date: ……………………………………………………………………..

If you want to accept this individual offer, then please
complete this form, and return it in the enclosed pre-paid
envelope by 31/7/10.

Please do not return the whole document – this is for you
to keep.

FINAL 25/6/10