All very true Fifty Four, However it gets worse,those pilots lucky enough to be taken on have since then been subjected to a two tier system within the BA community culminating with the last pay deal. This is supposed to be a collective deal and so according to the great God BALPA overides all previous agreements concerning ex Dan Pilots. Even their pensions are now capped at PP 16 + 5% regardless of the fact that they have been paying into the fund at PP20 for the last ten years. This gives a pension of £ 7480 pa less than a similar BA pension or a widows pension of £3740 pa less.
But such is life within BALPA run BA. We even have a Gatwick Local Council Chairman based not at LGW but at BHX and MAN and flying a type not now operating out of LGW. Does he step down? No he has the gall to assert that he represents us!!