If you look at the Board's profile, 10-20 years ago the directors mostly had quite a few years service with BA themselves. As time has gone on the Board's experience within BA has diminished considerably. Hence less loyalty to existing staff. With regard to Engineers A and C is quite right. The lack of a proper apprentice scheme means in my department the youngest ex-apprentices are close to 40 years old now. Over the last 20 plus years BA has failed to recruit any significant number of new entrants and that leaves a yawning gap to the 18 year olds starting now.
