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, It's "you're", not "your".....
WW is revealing yet again how how selective with the truth he (she?) is, when he claims: "Final salary scheme giving a pension of AT LEAST £80,000pa.".
WW: I suspect you are referring those in the old APS (Airways Pension Scheme). If you are then you know darn well that the "AP'sters" are a vanishing breed and that the vast, vast majority of current BA employees, including the vast majority of pilots, aren't in a comparable scheme. FWIW I'm in one of the older BA final salary schemes, yes I will leave on pay point "a lot", but won't see anything like the sum you've dreamt up - and that's not a grumble, just an observation.
Not sure a 5* means much these days, I reckon genuine 5* is pretty rare, but whatever the rating remember we do stay in the same hotels as our (and possibly your former) cabin crew colleagues, so using your logic it's not just the pilots that need to "smell the coffee".
A and C: Apologies, I digress, all that aside your's was a good point, well made.