Self importance? Of course. We are the reason as to why BA was once the world's favourite airline. Sure, some managers and desk clerks at Waterside might have put a few things together but the cabin crew are the face of the airline.
As someone who is not cabin crew I can only say that your comments show a remarkable lack of knowledge of the airline business.
[Takes deep breath]
Without wishng to be disparaging to cabin crew, you might care to contemplate what happened during the strike and extrapolate.
BA as a business continued to operate. We sold lots of seats. we sold lots of cargo space, we made certain that passengers, their baggage and all that cargo got from A to B.
We bought in aircraft and crews.
Basic bit of airline fact - you don't need planes or cabin crew or (and here I am on thin ice given this forum) flight crew. You do need accountants, marketeers, sales folk, revenue management and maybe the odd IT bod. You don't need vast numbers but you do need some.You can go into the market place and buy the rest. That's what wet leasing is all about. You can buy in your ground handling, that's what Servisair Gatwick Handling and others provide. You won't make as much profit or have as big an asset base, but then you won't have huge debts to service either.
Cabin crew may be one of the faces of the airline, but are no use unless there is sizeable operation out there to ensure that there are passengers to carry in the first place.Cabin crew are not the most important part of the airline, never have been and never will be. Your comments only serve to make you look foolish.
The strength of an organisation is the sum of its component parts.