I work for BA on the WW fleet. I'm quite junior, usually being at the bottom of the list. Before joining BA I worked for a charter airline in the UK and an airline in the Middle East.
It makes me very sad to read about all of this. BA cabin crew have no idea how lucky they are. Even with working with less crew onboard, they are the best paid crew in the UK and they have extremely good benefits. Working for BA is not anywhere near working for any other companty. Working for a UK charter airline, or down in the Middle East, is very hard work. Very long days, not really good pay, really no union representation, especially down in the Middle East.
I'm very junior on the WW fleet. I usually end up working in CW because the more senior crew seem to avoid that cabin now since imposition last year. But, I love my job more than anything and I love to serve our customers. Many of us crew do.
I hope this message gets through to all the striking crew.
My name has been spread since March that I worked through the strikes. I never thought a strike would be the solution as there was never really any reason for it. It never seems to go wrong either as I'm always seem to be working with striking crew. We used to have a really good solidarity and crew would socialise with eachother. But since the strikes earlier this year I have been faced with ignorance, backstabbing and crew not talking to me on flights or downroute. Our flight crew have been really good as I have always talked to them prior briefing since the strikes explaining the situation.
Realise what you're doing. A friend of mind recently did a 9 day BKK/SYD and none of the cabin crew talked to her except the flight crew.
I love my job, and many of us do, but I can assure that I'm always crying before always going into work because of the actions from some of you. Why? Because I'm scared of the actions by some of you. I'm even considering leaving BA and have went to several job interviews.