airrage. I think I can see where you are coming from, I wonder if you can say he same for us?
One minute we are a successful Regional Airline, making record profits year on year, and broadly speaking, as satisfied as pilots ever get to be. Then BA come and buy us. (I really wouldn't talk too much about share price if I were you!).
Worst of all, they then deluge us with appointments, mangers and BA personnel. They also merge us with another successful wholly owned subsidiary, already going through the BAisation routine. Our colleagues in Brymon tell us what BA management is like - but most of us smile and think they exaggerate.
Then we look at the Big Cheeses coming our way, (not to mention the little one, lol).
We get managers with no experience of managing, certianly not of managing regional airlines anyway. We get Fleet Manager appointments with no experience of manageing, or even of being an aircraft Captain, we get training captains likewise. We see appointments made blatantly to relatives of senior staff, and then they say everything must change. No specifics as to why we must change, just that we must.
We change SOPs, manuals, procedures, management structures, training structures, training procedures, passenger checkin methods, aircraft handling methods, pax and crew catering, uniforms, recruitment - EVERYTHING.
What happens next? Hmmmm, we start cancelling flights due to lack of crew, we have plummeting morale, we have dirty unkempt aircraft, total lack of timekeeping - its an effing disaster - but hey what do we know? Noone apologises, noone is fired, and the same management that achieved this masterpiece carry on with their buddy buddy tactics, changing things that worked for things that don't. I would be the first to stand in line and congratulate success, but this is bizarre. I don't know how, but somehow apparently we are still in the black, but it can't b by much.
This airrage, is why we don't trust or believe anything to do with BA. I can actually see what you mean with your last post, but I can tell you, this type of system may be ok for a large outfit like Marconi, oops, I mean BA (you see, methodology DOES matter) but it does not work in the smaller, tighter Regional setup.
I suppose I would be happy to accept BA Ts and Cs, but I'm not sure I would actually be better off. I certainly can't afford to retire at 55. I certainly don't want to become a tiny cog in the machine; I quite like being able to actively contribute, and see the difference my efforts make. It does seem however that this aproach is impossible within BA. I don't know who I feel sorriest for, you lot for having your system, or us lot for having to join your system.
Maybe there isn't an answer, but your attitude certainly doesn't help.