I honestly think that some of you BA boys are so inflated with your own self importance that you genuinely believe that if you repeat the self justifying drivel about the benefits of Scope to BACX etc often enough then we will believe it.
Lets be quite clear.
Scope is not about a two way process, it is about protecting one group of workers at the expense of another.
It is about greed.
It is about ensuring that a group who are inefficient and unprofitable sustain terms and conditions for themselves by attaching themselves as parasites to the backs of a lower cost subsidiary.
Scope is about the worst form of industrial protectionsim. History is riddled with examples of how workers in dying industries have tried to buck market forces and have ended up in the dust themselves.
Face it guys! you belong to a bygone era. The industry has moved on from where you would like it to be.
We live in a new world where the likes Of Mike O' Leary rule. None of us like that but look at the evidence (Ryanair and its shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank)
The conduct of BACC in holding BACX displaced pilots hostage to their broader industrial and political ambitions is in the process of backfiring.
I for one am very glad that at such an early stage of the negotiation process BACX pilots have been able to experience at first hand exactly how the advocates of Scope behave. As a result I am absolutely certain the the whole stupid exploitative and irrelevant idea will go absolutely no where.