LPtP
Firstly good luck for today.
Forgive the thread drift but with regard to your comments about BA and:
Your (sic) also more likely to get a weekend / Christmas off at Easyjet earlier in your career!
G-FORC3 is correct when he states that it's not that difficult.
Weekends, perhaps. Christmas? Without going into the sub sub specialist subject of "Bidline for shorthaul" I'd point out that:
1. Christmas work is allocated on a points system with credit being given for any previous Christmas(s) worked.
2. Even BA's shorthaul winds down over Xmas and those that are keen to work bid positively to get a standover Christmas Day somewhere of
their choosing.....
FWIW I've been in BA over 25 years and never worked a Christmas unless I have wanted too (worked plenty of weekends and over a dozen Christmases though, as we all do).
As a general point from reading the thread yes, BA has got it's problems, as have all airlines...the real world is not as rose tinted as some would have us believe. There is some unhappiness in some areas down to the likes of work load, pay, and stagnation. If someone is "in a hurry", so to speak, I can see the attraction of Easyjet over BA - especially if all your target in life is is a quick command, with all that goes with it, and/or only ever want to fly shorthaul from (hopefully) your local base.