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Qudditch. .According to the Times, Virgin announced earlier today that it would be 'introducing extra services to China, Nigeria and the Caribbean, and resuming two services - to Las Vegas and New York - that were suspended after the attacks.'. .I'll see what I can find about the detail from my own sources, but I believe that these are incremental capacity increases and restorations, not new schedules.. .As for BA's numbers, the aircraft and aircrew reductions are definately relative to Summer 2001 (ie before 9/11), and have largely already been achieved or identified. Today's cuts are almost exclusively support staff, and are to take effect by March 2004 - not exactly the day after tomorrow!!. .The stock market's true reaction to this will await further detail of the short-haul restructuring; the markets appear to be holding fire at the moment. That's not a bad sign - if there'd been a perception that the actions were insufficient or wrong, the punishment to the share price would have been immediate and merciless.. .Overall, I think this is good for the future of BA - and therefore good for all of you. Just that the pain will go on a bit longer than we'd hoped.
Virgin Schedule Amendments. .As I suspected, they're incremental. Here's a summary:. .Las Vegas: extra flight Tuesdays from 30 Jul - 27 August.. .Newark: extra Tuesday flight (VS17) from 4 Jun, and Wednesday (also VS17) from 24 Jul to September.. .Shanghai: extra Tuesday flight from 2 July to September.. .Lagos: extra Tuesday flight from 19 March.. .Antigus: extra extension from Barbados on Fridays.. .Cape Town: withdrawn for southern winter from April to October.
Nothing earth-shattering, but a useful increase.
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Virgin Schedule Amendments. .As I suspected, they're incremental. Here's a summary:. .Las Vegas: extra flight Tuesdays from 30 Jul - 27 August.. .Newark: extra Tuesday flight (VS17) from 4 Jun, and Wednesday (also VS17) from 24 Jul to September.. .Shanghai: extra Tuesday flight from 2 July to September.. .Lagos: extra Tuesday flight from 19 March.. .Antigus: extra extension from Barbados on Fridays.. .Cape Town: withdrawn for southern winter from April to October.
Nothing earth-shattering, but a useful increase.
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I agree with Scroggs, the 400 pilots have already be accounted for in the total figure and are not part of the 5,800 recently announced.
Just for info. Colleagues of mine who graduated BA sponsored in Spet 2001, are now taking up positions with BAC as an alternative. And BA friends have confirmed that majority of 400 are early retirees, unpaid leave, and yet to be placed cadets.
Just for info. Colleagues of mine who graduated BA sponsored in Spet 2001, are now taking up positions with BAC as an alternative. And BA friends have confirmed that majority of 400 are early retirees, unpaid leave, and yet to be placed cadets.
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The majority of the 400 jobs losses have already taken place, that is good news, both for wannabes and any BA pilots waiting for yesterdays announcements!
Apologies for the panic, maybe things aren't tooooo bad. Bloody hell, the mood swings you go through as a wannabe, I'm off for to pick up a prescription for some beta-blockers <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
(still cautiously clinging to the security of my current job though!)
Apologies for the panic, maybe things aren't tooooo bad. Bloody hell, the mood swings you go through as a wannabe, I'm off for to pick up a prescription for some beta-blockers <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
(still cautiously clinging to the security of my current job though!)
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Purple Haze. .36% of the 5800 jobs to go as of yesterday are from BA's HQ staff. That, to me, suggests a fair number of middle management types. Anyone need a Feng Shui department?
