Ah, yes…… let me see… lets get this right……. you have just been awarded a massive pay rise, you have enviable security of employment, the best terms and condition in the industry, a vast network, offering the total range of flying life-styles, sixty odd 747 – 400s and you want more. You want to take commands and jobs away from pilots in a small, fledgling, private, independent, UK airline with two or three 747-400 freighters - jobs and commands from fellow BALPA members who are struggling to forge a career in the harsh reality of the aviation world that exists outside BA.
And this is based, of course, on an honourable, altruistic and unselfish dogma. Now what was it? I recall: - ‘BA work’, ‘BA work’, ‘BA work’.
Now let me think …… I remember now….. BA once had a 747 freighter, G-KILO that arrived in1980 and flew for 18 months.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me!!!!