Fritzi said
You cant fight the retirement. She is being withdrawn from service, no matter what anyone does.
Fair point. But what I meant is fight that you are going to lose your jobs. That's the right thing, but striking wouldn't help. There are many of us guys out there who want her to fly to the date BA stated, Oct 24th, and not before, and if you strike, that date could be brought forward. Something we don't want!
There are many of us who are trying our best to stop the retirement. We have organised a petition, written to many companies to request their support to BA to help with costs of maintaining her, and we have been writing to the government, and the Tories to try to get assistance. It doesn't stop there. We are trying everything. After all this was made with our money and BA have been damned fine cartakers, (yes I know they bought them) and we want them flying until the real time for retirement, which is not now!!!!
We are not lying down as the French would. We want our aircraft to fly even if the French don't want to fly theirs. Funny how they're keeping one of them in working order, though, at least hydraulically!
No why is that, if the aircraft is not going to fly again?