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Old 17th September 2002 | 20:43
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Cornflake
 
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From: Jellystone Park
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Well Mr Solo, you certainly don't mess about, at least we know exactly where we stand in the view of BACC.
I notice you didn't address the point about strike action. I suppose we at BACX are in a win/win situation.

Option 1. Management work out a deal with you whereby we operate regional routes on RJs and then bigger aircraft, operating in some cases with mainline guys, and in some with just ourselves.

Option 2. BACC call a strike, and it isn't supported fully enough either for BALPA to agree it, or if they do, there are enough pilots who ignore it to make it just a farce. Management win, and red faced BACC have to eat some serious crow - also losing all BALPA credibility for the foreseeable future.

Option 3. BACC call a strike. It is supported, BA looks like folding, but Marshall/Eddington strike a deal with BACC. This deal canot possibly be as much as you appear to want, so everyone who has struck or not is actually left disadvantaged/unhappy/resentful - except for the BACX pilots, who now inherit more and more routes as the (new) management set up deals to ensure this cannot happen again.

My money is on some sort of option 2. I just don't think you are in the real world meboy.
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