No one knows what the new bid line is going to look like. BALPA gave away one of the greatest aspects of life in BA. They might have got rid of forced draft, but it's been replaced with Roster Assign, which for many is pretty much the same, except it happens every month, whereas forced draft didn't. The days off you bid for can be assigned work after the final roster is published. BALPA agreed bid line was broken and we had enough pilots. 400+ pilots have been hired since and we still don't have enough pilots, but we've lost bid line. Now at the behest of BALPA, it's all up in the air again. No one knows what Is going to happen now. We've got another vote coming up, but no info as of yet. I see the propaganda machine is being fired up though. Reading between the lines, however....
On Short Haul we spend hours sitting around in the T5 canteen on the most inefficient roster you could hope to publish, but that's lost on BALPA too! Still, we lost bid line and got nothing in return.
There are a hardcore of CC commies. It's easy to identify them and due to their hatred of pilots and of BA they tend to sit in their hotel rooms. I've had some good nights out, mostly with mixed fleet though...
