we are going to lose a huge amount of pay as the most lucrative destinations would go over. Unfortunately staff on the ground don't understand this. Neither do our pilots.
Erm, yes we do, Miss M, and that is why many of us were perplexed when BASSA arbitrarily rejected the idea of hourly pay many years ago. It would have "evened out the bumps" caused by high earning trips and probably improved the sickness record for certain destinations to boot. Of course it would also have meant that the cosy arrangements between certain "senior" union reps and the scheduling team would have been terminated, and so was rejected out of hand.
So you now find your finances heavily dependent on going to destinations you have no contractual right to serve, and have accelerated the employment of CC who are way cheaper than you.
I think I understand.