neil_further
All pilots (those that hold an ATPL) have the same licence. We all pass our six monthly simulator checks by achieving the required standard.
How do you promote somebody, with the same qualifications and ability as 1000 other people, on merit?
If you can answer that then you are a wiser man than I.
I wouldn't move to 'Easy, etc.', but apply to Emirates, Cathay (industrial problems aside), or the myriad of other operators that have a better lifestyle and reward structure than BA. If many of us did that, guess what? Terms and conditions would change at BA to retain pilots. Ie market forces would rule. They don't at present.
Shadow_purser to quote you from a thread on reporting points:
Most people at SH LGW are in the same boat too and as for LH LGW well... their lucky to get more than two flights on their roster at the moment.
If BA LGW is so grossly overmanned that CC are only getting a couple of trips a month then why are so many still on the payroll? I wasn't aware that we are expanding.