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Old 21st January 2011 | 12:51
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NigelOnDraft
 
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Assuming SFCC is correct about your "current employer"?

Yes - there are opportunities outside of flying. In general "management" covers it.

I will try and express it delicately It is very different to how you might regard other duties in the RAF, and how you might regard your "superiors". Most line pilots will regard you as a separate species, avoid talking to you, and assume you are on an enormous bonus scheme that is triggered purely by how miserable you make the life / salary / T&Cs of the line pilots.

In practice, the "greasy pole" of BA Management seems very political, cut throat, and involves lots of hours for little reward. They either get promoted beyond their ability, or the ones "we" judge as the acceptable face of Management do not progess. When you do find one barely acceptable he suddenly "resigns to spend more time with his family", but in reality he had something that did not fit

In short, I fail to understand, for the most part "why" they go into Mgmt - in particular former RAF colleagues. Some do see the light and escape back to being line pilots, sometimes even by their own choice

I shall no doubt soon work out who is "Manager i/c monitoring pPrune"

If you do have energy / skills / ambition / time outside the line flying duties, there is plenty of scope to devote these to things outside BA - as many do.
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