A good follow up to the GB pilots topic. Although some of the mainline pilots were implying that any BACX input was irrelevant to that thread they were being disingenuous. The inclusion of GB pilots onto the MAINLINE seniority list has everything to do with our own position regarding scope which is becoming a bigger stitch up all the while.
It is a foregone conclusion that the BA CC is just after protecting it's pilots own position. I would also question what BALPA as an organisation are going to do. Our BACX CC is fighting our corner as hard as they can, but I don't see what BALPA as an organisation would do to help us should it come to pass that BACX pilots are significantly disadvantaged by the scope agreement. After all we are a much smaller body of pilots than BA BALPA, paid less, and therefore would represent less of a financial loss if we were to award ourselves a 1% payrise. It must be very frustrating for our CC.
The BAR pilots who will be coming on secondment will be laughing all the way to the bank. If the figure of £1000 per month is true then that represents 20% over and above a jet captain's salary in BACX. As an aside it would be interesting to see if the routes are initially profitable while being operated by the CFE / BAR pilots on the BACX costbase.