BG, from 2012 the CAA will have NO say as to our FTL's.
From 2012, the CAA will effectively cease to exist as the regulator. To all intents and purposes it will become a regional office for EASA.
I understand that these new rules will be even less restrictive but I am not sure that, that necessarily equates with BA actually adopting these limits, as up until last November (when Mixed Fleet started) they never have rostered to the limit under our current scheme.
BA use (more or less) Scheme limits for crews at LGW, just shorthaul for pilots but both longhaul and shorthaul for cabin crew (where was BASSA when that happened...
?)
If BA's competitors adopt the new limits, as a previous poster has mentioned, it will only be a matter of time before BA has little choice but to do likewise to compete. It is unlikely that Bidline Rules will protect the pilots for ever so what chance does the WW/EF Scheduling Agreement have?
