Hand Solo
You have no knowledge of the severance terms agreed between the Concorde F/Es and BA. You are qualified to comment neither on the BA F/Es severance, nor the support they have amongst the BA pilot community.
I will immediately admit that I am not qualified to comment upon the support from the pilot community. My reference to a lack of support, if you care to check my previous post, was aimed at BALPA. I referred
not once to pilot support.
I also have no knowledge of the severance terms of the applicable BA F/E's. I do, however, know that there is a legal level of redundancy payment and a refusal by BA to pay that minimum ammount is the only legal justification for strike action. Anything more than the legal minimum is a bonus, for which the F/E's should be grateful. Are BA renaging upon a written agreement to pay out more than the legal minimum ?
Perhaps you should consider the fact that Planet Decadence (formerly Planet Taxpayer's Expense) was also formerly the worlds most profitable airline. Concorde played a large part, both directly and indirectly, in that profitability.
Perhaps you should consider that the inheritance left to BA upon privatisation was a complete airline, route structure and the massive majority of Heathrow slot allocations. The taxpayer forfeited a vast sum to establish BA as it was at that time. It was a giant, minnow-devouring monopoly. If you can't make a profit with that sort of an advantage, then you'd have to be trying to lose money on purpose.
The F/Es have performed a highly specialised and indispensable task in operating the flagship of our fleet, and are now being hung out to dry whilst managers sit at home on full pay.
Do you think that they're unique in that respect ? Take a look at the remainder of the airlines in the UK, nay, in the
real world and how they consistently mistreat/have mistreated their loyal, hard working employees.
I stand by my previous post.
EDIT -- It occurs to me to ask, since you raised the subject, as to how you decide that Concorde has been a profitable concern.
But then, how stupid of me ! I had included the massive cost of Concorde's design, development and production in my calculations. Remind me -- who exactly payed for all of that ?
Ah yes ! BA's old favourite of that era,
the taxpayer.
