Explain to me how that is fair?
This comment keeps cropping up all over the place in recent years, and I'm really struggling to understand what the **** its got to do with anything. Our politicians are hell bent on destroying the country in an attempt to make things more 'fair'. Why let some people get unfairly rich - why not make everyone poor - thats much fairer.
Since when was life supposed to be fair? It is what it is. There are many claims you can make in the british (and most other) legal systems. however "It ain't fair guv'nor" isn't one of them.
Bottom line is BMI is donald ducked. I supposed the 'fairest' option would be to let it go bust, put all the pilots in the job centre and let them apply for BA jobs along with everyone else, and let the slots go to the highest bidder. That option sounds very egalitarian to me
However I suspect the BMI pilots would like the 'unfair' option of being parachuted into BA mainline, with BA job security and benefits, albeit with a loss of seniority.
However as has been said before the seniority question only arises IF its is merged into BA. if it remains standalone, then it is irrelevent, as is TUPE as its not got anything to do with BA.