757 Driver,
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.
Remember that when your daughter is run over by a bus, driven by a maniac.
Sure, "unfair" things happen, but that does not mean we should not seek to mitigate the consequences of those "unfair" events, if it is within our power to do so.
Whilst some BA pilots seem to think this is
their battle,
studi is right to point out the wider ramifications. What happens at BA affects the UK market - the argument has always been that they exert the upward pressure on airline T&C's here in the UK - and one imagines the MartinAir guys might have one eye on what happens here, for instance?
In this instance, I'm sure UK pilots outside BA are wondering whether capitulation will mean downward pressure on
their T&C's in the "nearer than expected" future.
Thats why they might be adding their $0.02.