Don't forget the biggest crime of all here here (and I do mean crime) is that the BMI baby pilots will all be made redundant in about 8 weeks time.
Unfortunately, including for an old friend of mine at BMIBaby, the business model of Baby does not fit with IAG, hence IAG did not, nor ever, bid to include either Regional or Baby in their bid for BMI Mainline. IAG, through BA, have no need of regional operators or bases, the only positive asset that Mainline brought with them were the slots. Even the benefit of those will take time to work through. Hence the acceptance of the pilot community to work to a long term plan (XWB350/777X). But, hey, why not spout the Daily Mail headline for the day without considering the future?
BA will even take many of baby's aircraft to join the LGW base once the staff have been terminated.
Can you back this up with proof? Nope, thought not. The Baby aircraft are a completely different mod state to the heaps that BA flies out of LGW, add to that that Airbus have been backfilling already at LGW and the decision for fleet replacement is currently being made that last thing IAG need is a bunch of clapped out old 73's.
BMI baby pilots (who are all employed by British Midland Airways Ltd) will not even get a look into the BA holding pool.
Sad but true, see my original point above.
I hope to God someone with balls (obviously not BAlpa) sues their a$$es off.
Yep, someone sue LH for not managing to sell off the two parts of the company that LH originally agreed to sell off but couldn't. Thus dumping them onto
IAG (BA NEVER bought BMI) as a cost reduction negative liability. The reduced purchase cost of Mainline with Regional and Baby was there to cover winding up costs. LH dumped BMI unceremoniously. The pensions minister and the pensions regulator need a rocket fired at them for abandoning BMI by allowing LH to dump the pension into the hands of the UK regulator. LH screwed BMI right royally. Without a buyout the slots would have reverted to BAA Heathrow and the bidding would have begun. There would, however, have been far, far more redundancies.
Out of interest under what legal ruling would you 'sue' anybody anyway? If a small independant company had bought up the BMI group and then announced they couldn't support Regional and Baby the headline would have been different. 'New startup saves 350 jobs, unfortunately redundancies due but many jobs saved' etc... IAG through BA are not a charity and not there to absorb all pilot jobs from companies that were foisted on to them.
So, Penguin, just like the 'Count' pick your cherries and complain without knowing the business reasons behind the action or the true nature of the major participants.