wg13_dummy, since you've already opined:
Just think that on the whole, crabs are a bunch of self serving cnuts.
You obviously have your own rather fixed opinion. Hence any debate would be somewhat pointless.
Newsnight was interesting last night, but the interviewees lacked any real commitment to improve or investigate the alleged situation........
Anyway, from the top of ba recruiting himself, they are about to start an expansion programme requiring DE pilots. Those with TRs for Airbus will be eagerly snapped up, so quite how 'manning' will cope with maintaining force strengths in some fleets will be interesting to observe. Whether or not it was in jest, one well-placed source advised me that they were 'bracing themselves for the rush'.....
ba taking DE pilots will mean that other airlines will then be looking to replace those who defect to ba. So it won't be long before the RAF will see a similar mass exodus to that of the 1990s..... When lifestyle as well as Ts and Cs was somewhat better than is reportedly the case these days.