BA rocked as 500 top bosses quit
I'm not sure wether the original poster works for the Mirror and is advertising his story, or works for the Ch 4 and is hyping Dispatches...
Company asks for some grades to apply for voluntary redundancy, 450 apply...big deal... "rocked", I don't think so.
"Panicking", well a BA Board member might well be but not over the future of BA, more likely over their position on the Board.
I think everyone in aviation related jobs should be rightly concerned about the future, but BA isn't "rocked" and it sure as heck isn't "panicking".
Company asks for some grades to apply for voluntary redundancy, 450 apply...big deal... "rocked", I don't think so.
"Panicking", well a BA Board member might well be but not over the future of BA, more likely over their position on the Board.
I think everyone in aviation related jobs should be rightly concerned about the future, but BA isn't "rocked" and it sure as heck isn't "panicking".
many of the pilots working LH/SH in 'Birdseed' are still approaching/hitting the CAA hours limitation
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Rocked? No way!
In times of downturn BA has NEVER wielded the axe enough to clear the dead wood.
Think of all those jobs with fancy names (Multi worded Job title) How many are really and truly needed?
Talking to many people in different areas, the "work face" workers have been taking hits in jobs and terms and conditions for years.
How big does the "support team" need to be?
A cull at the top is fine, the company keeps talking about "Back to Basics" in service, but it also needs to go back to basics in what is needed to run the airline? (I am probably talking myself out of a job here! )
That is my tuppence worth!
In times of downturn BA has NEVER wielded the axe enough to clear the dead wood.
Think of all those jobs with fancy names (Multi worded Job title) How many are really and truly needed?
Talking to many people in different areas, the "work face" workers have been taking hits in jobs and terms and conditions for years.
How big does the "support team" need to be?
A cull at the top is fine, the company keeps talking about "Back to Basics" in service, but it also needs to go back to basics in what is needed to run the airline? (I am probably talking myself out of a job here! )
That is my tuppence worth!
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I think the point is that if you can spare 500 managers and still operate to the same standard- which BA will- you plainly had at least 500 "managers" that had no bloody business at all being there in the first place.
Perhaps some on here really are unaware of what is really going on at BA.
Just because staff are surplus now when times are hard doesn't mean they weren't valuable assets that helped us survive and make massive profits in the past.
Manager or non-manager there is good and bad in all of them. I just hope the ones who are going are not the ones we really need to stay
Let's hope one to go is that renegade Staff Travel manager who supported - probably initiated - the disgraceful treatment of the older pensioners by arbitrarily ,and retrospectively, cutting off their rebate travel at the end of their lives - for which they pay something don't forget, even if only tax towards the crazy Carbon Credit tax per aircraft nonsense, and every penny counts these days - maybe that manager will be replaced with someone a little more honorably disposed to those who forged the once proud airline that they are now privileged to screw up.
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It's ironic that many pilots rostered hours on SH are in excess of Easyjet.
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Flown with a couple of ex EJ pilots who've recently joined BA who weren't doing 900 hours per year in their previous company. Not everybodys doing 900 hours in BA either, but I don't think one could say either group was clearly working harder than the other.
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Am I correct in thinking that if you're on the minibus fleet out of LHR or 733 out of LGW then you spend a lot of time away night stopping around Europe?
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BA running at about 160/airframe, Iberia 120/airframe and American at about 90/airframe.
All that is certain is that most contributors here either know nothing, or work for the Daily Mail / Despatches.
Am I correct in thinking that if you're on the minibus fleet out of LHR or 733 out of LGW then you spend a lot of time away night stopping around Europe?
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meaningless if BA operates services inhouse at a lower cost than an outsourcer - thereby raising the headcount figure, but operating more efficiently.
Of course the money 'circulates' inside BA but all departmental budgeting/accounting costs money/time/manpower to process so it is not cost neutral as it appears. Again - it is much nicer to have your own people doing your own engineering/dispatch/check-in etc but it does cost more.
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Never knew that - have you gotten an exemption to go beyond the CAP371 targets?
That's not to say the company haven't applied for exemptions in the past. There was a request a couple of years ago for 100hr/month for twelve months and the CAA objected. No doubt we will see them trying to push of LH bunk time to be discounted from the total again. Can't see that happening in a hurry either.
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We're all bl***y managers
The term manager when applied to BA is anyone that they have identified as not entitled to overtime. You work past your 37.5 hours for free on the promise of a fat bonus at year end (well July anyway). Aircraft maintenance supervisors are 'management grade', quality engineers, tech engineers etc etc - all managers. So it doesn't surprise me, that there are 1500 that have at some point, or are at the moment, in charge of a team (sometimes a team of one!) who have been offered the dosh to go. Life will go on, safety won't be compromised, we'll just do things differently and bin anything that doesn't add value.
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Well I won't be, cos I'm off too!!!
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All that is certain is that most contributors here either know nothing, or work for the Daily Mail / Despatches.
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Calm down reheat..... it's only a discussion. I think the manager/airframe ratio is a good indicator. For years people have been saying BA is top heavy...but it wasn't until this morning that I found out that BA could happily just lose 1,500 and carry on! I think you have to admit that's alarming.
As for the SH European tours..... it was just a question. No criticism, not trying to make "a point".
Chill out.
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As for the SH European tours..... it was just a question. No criticism, not trying to make "a point".
Chill out.
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All managers were asked if they wished voluntary redunacy,
Maybe because
Again - it is much nicer to have your own people doing your own engineering/dispatch/check-in etc but it does cost more.
You work past your 37.5 hours for free on the promise of a fat bonus at year end