Hubert,
You can't just let your imagination run wild and imagine all these dreadful scenarios and act as if they are definitely going to happen. You have to base things on fact. Fact is that Bill Francis has given his word that we can keep our terms and conditions and continue to negotiate all our agreements.
You say they removed the last 'pay back' deal after three years and yes they did but that was because it was only agreed for three years and in actual fact, hardly any crew ever got paid out from it because we nearly all earned more than we previously had, with the exceptions of a few E/F crew who had previously done a lot of split duties.
I agree this figure is low but it is now just a safety net, the previous offer was higher but that was a replacement which, although it was higher, would have not rewarded those that did the harder, longer,trips. I actually prefer the new offer but just wish we had, had an active union negotiating for us and maybe it would have been a bit better. What we got was an embittered DH dragging crew into a dispute and loosing a lot of crew their staff travel for nothing. It could have been so much better!
Colonel White,
Yes it is more of a desire than anything else. Had we had a useful union it may have been better but as you say not much hope now. Incidentally had we have had a productive union the Mixed Fleet crew could also be working to better agreements. They are going to be getting a worse deal than Gatwick now and that is thanks to Bassa.