Been flying for BA Main line for FOR A WHILE. Now flying(SH)out for BAR. Started on £18,000 have now reached about £36,000. Sat & thought about it and after hearing fellow pilots discussing the issue am totally opposed to the withdrawal of incremental pay for following reasons:
BALPA have shown that we work harder and earn less then some other airlines
We have more ground staff etc then other airlines we should address this.
Please remember back to 1995 when BA had some good profits, but did not increase pay by much as this would create a high staff cost base, this would be a problem during a down turn!! Please see BA news.
Flight crew will be targeted unevenly, for those on pay point 24 no affect!!!!!
Forever one pay point behind in turn affecting pensions (mine).
And if we give in on this it allows BA to come along next month etc and say its going to be a tough time ahead so we need even further cuts as things still look bad. It has been done before it will be done again.
edited due to grammatical errors and tiredness
[ 11 October 2001: Message edited by: Thankyoukindly ]