BA losing money ? how can that be ?
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So what all you lot sniping away want is every pilot, including yourselves, to be paid tuppence ha'penny a day, bring your own tent, and eat roadkill? Will that make you all happy?
Typical British attitude....
Typical British attitude....
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Brakes..beer, sorry my reply is a bit down the line. To be honest I don't know, at the moment I'm on cityflyer t&c working quite hard but when we go on the hourly rate I don't know what it'll look like because we'll be moving onto the bidding system. Depending on whether I do tours or not would make a difference. At the moment there is crew on cityflyer t & c do 10 hour days with four sectors for under £15 duty pay, it's no wonder BA passed stuff over to us for a while.
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Gosh what a prickly lot you are !. .As the thread starter,i dont believe that i mentioned anywhere about Flight crew being responsible for the dreadful waste of money that goes on, It was just an example.. .To my fellow ppruner I can assure you that no standby's were involved on Saturday. Just sheer, pure, poor management, ridiculous rostering, and shameful waste of peoples time and company money.. .Why didnt they report early Saturday evening if it was to protect the FDP? . .Flight crew to blame..of course not, but not a single member of the crew questioned it or flagged it up, something to do with allowances maybe ?? In THIS case yes it was flight crew, how about somebody from engineering or Waterworld giving us some good examples to balance the books.
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Flight Rider I have absolutely no idea where you are getting your information from but it is somewhat inaccurate. Having just had a night stop removed from a 4 day trip I can assure you that I will not receive a penny in flying hour rate or allowances. In fact I will be somewhat worse off having lost those allowances and having an extra home-lgw journey added to my trip. Get your facts right and stop talking out of your ar*e.
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Just for the record, there are NO LGW based 767 Flight Crew. All 757/767 Flight Crew are LHR based and report directly to either LHR or LGW. Are you talking about LGW based CABIN CREW here?
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Just for the record, there are NO LGW based 767 Flight Crew. All 757/767 Flight Crew are LHR based and report directly to either LHR or LGW. Are you talking about LGW based CABIN CREW here?
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An example of waste in BA Engineering?
How about £8 million worth of BA powerplant spares "lost" in the wonderfull world of "The Link" goods receiving centre. No wonder its been nicknamed "The Missing Link"
Or the loss of upwards of £85000 of CityFlyer spares within just a few months of BA insisting that CFE spares are received at The Link.
The most incredible thing was to find that BA Engineering actaully budget for loosing their spares.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
An example of waste in BA Engineering?
How about £8 million worth of BA powerplant spares "lost" in the wonderfull world of "The Link" goods receiving centre. No wonder its been nicknamed "The Missing Link"
Or the loss of upwards of £85000 of CityFlyer spares within just a few months of BA insisting that CFE spares are received at The Link.
The most incredible thing was to find that BA Engineering actaully budget for loosing their spares.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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P22. .Yes we talking cabin crew.......so 9 people not 3,. .sorry for misunderstanding.. .Somebody from BA tell me why they operate 3 flight deck on 2 man aeroplane ??. .went to Bermuda recently and 3 Nigels up front on 777....Normal compliment im told.. .uh oh...tin hat time !
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Reason for 3 crew on a BDA is for training as it is normally a 2 crew trip.
3rd crew member is either. .a) A safety pilot to ensure that there is enough experience on the flight deck should the Training Captain become incapacitated. OR. .b) A Route checker who is checking the crew on their annual route check.
3rd crew member is either. .a) A safety pilot to ensure that there is enough experience on the flight deck should the Training Captain become incapacitated. OR. .b) A Route checker who is checking the crew on their annual route check.
Scottie, Your comments on how easy Ultra Longhaul is are really out of touch. Havind operated LH for 5yrs and ULH for 10 yrs I can assure that the cumulative effect is fairly unpleasant and undoubtedly degrades operational performance. After two weeks leave you suddenly realise what its like to feel normal. I suggest you only comment on your own straight lines in the future!
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What a sad and depressing thread, and what depressing occupants! Rather than respond to ridiculous demands of allowances and pay and flying to the final penny, I think these people should be ignored, This is a NEWS forum, not an area for those 'BA wannabees, but never were' to give abuse. BA is just doing fine- the loads are good, flights are full, time to start upping the yields. If they want to think that the BA pilots are sinking this outfit, may I suggest that this forum is not the area to disabuse them!
