BA to slash 10,000jobs
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I can't believe BA ... are they serious about wanting to keep their premium pax, or is their marketing team really employed by VS or another competitor and they are simply trying to kill off the airline for an ulterior motive? 
BA downgrades club-class bags
Keith Harper, transport editor
Monday December 10, 2001
The Guardian
British Airways has abolished priority status for business class baggage and is lumping it in with economy luggage in a new cost-cutting exercise.
Global service standards manager Tony Mahood said management had discovered a "substantial cost saving" by reducing the production of brand luggage labels. Only first class passengers will now receive a priority tag.
One of the big attractions of club class flights to busy businessmen - a market BA wants and needs to keep - is knowing their bags will be first off the carousel. Now premium passengers will face the same delays as those at the back of the plane.
The move was described by one senior manager as "a blow to the reputation of the company at a time when we are trying to attract passengers back." But a BA spokesman said: "These are hard times and hard times call for hard measures. We have to look at all areas to see where we can make savings."
BA denied reports that it had drawn up plans to make a further 10,000 people redundant next year. It has already announced 7,500 job cuts by next April. Five thousand BA workers have left so far.
Yesterday's reports are confusing. They suggest that BA wants to reduce its workforce from 57,000 to 47,000, but the airline said its numbers had already been cut to 51,500 and by next March would be down to at most 49,000.
But BA made it clear that it could not rule out further redundancies. The position will become clearer early next year when the company has completed a review called the future size and shape project.
BA said the review had only just started. "Five managers are conducting it. They have been given a clean sheet of paper and will look at the entire network."
Senior staff say the company is preparing staff for the worst, but that the cuts will not be as draconian as is being painted.
Keith Harper, transport editor
Monday December 10, 2001
The Guardian
British Airways has abolished priority status for business class baggage and is lumping it in with economy luggage in a new cost-cutting exercise.
Global service standards manager Tony Mahood said management had discovered a "substantial cost saving" by reducing the production of brand luggage labels. Only first class passengers will now receive a priority tag.
One of the big attractions of club class flights to busy businessmen - a market BA wants and needs to keep - is knowing their bags will be first off the carousel. Now premium passengers will face the same delays as those at the back of the plane.
The move was described by one senior manager as "a blow to the reputation of the company at a time when we are trying to attract passengers back." But a BA spokesman said: "These are hard times and hard times call for hard measures. We have to look at all areas to see where we can make savings."
BA denied reports that it had drawn up plans to make a further 10,000 people redundant next year. It has already announced 7,500 job cuts by next April. Five thousand BA workers have left so far.
Yesterday's reports are confusing. They suggest that BA wants to reduce its workforce from 57,000 to 47,000, but the airline said its numbers had already been cut to 51,500 and by next March would be down to at most 49,000.
But BA made it clear that it could not rule out further redundancies. The position will become clearer early next year when the company has completed a review called the future size and shape project.
BA said the review had only just started. "Five managers are conducting it. They have been given a clean sheet of paper and will look at the entire network."
Senior staff say the company is preparing staff for the worst, but that the cuts will not be as draconian as is being painted.
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The Observer article contained little that was new, but I was most surprised to see yhe comment"'opportunity of a generation' to revolutionise the airline without the risk of major industrial action". The first part makes sense, The second suggests that the target is organised labour rather than excess bureacracy. When you go for liposuction, you don't start with the muscles.
Examples of the belly fat I have encountered recently: The Captain who turns up for a flight ops. meeting at Waterside to find the room occupied by the Feng Shui group. The manager I took to a central european location (first class both ways) whose only task over 3 days was to give a 30 min. assessment to a couple of locals ( he turned up late for these).
Being a low cost airline may not be an option, but we can no longer afford this nonsense
Examples of the belly fat I have encountered recently: The Captain who turns up for a flight ops. meeting at Waterside to find the room occupied by the Feng Shui group. The manager I took to a central european location (first class both ways) whose only task over 3 days was to give a 30 min. assessment to a couple of locals ( he turned up late for these).
Being a low cost airline may not be an option, but we can no longer afford this nonsense
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Well I've flown for a few different companies and I have to say that BA is the worst run that I've encountered.....Never have I seen so many chiefs !!
May as well just paint LGW orange because if Stelios has got any sense he'll be bargaining now with BAA for all of the stands and slots that will eventually be free...
May as well just paint LGW orange because if Stelios has got any sense he'll be bargaining now with BAA for all of the stands and slots that will eventually be free...
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the Feng Shui group is now the stuff of legends - maybe you were the person who told me about it. But can anyone top this - I carried a bread roll temperature auditor on one of my flights.
the Feng Shui group is now the stuff of legends - maybe you were the person who told me about it. But can anyone top this - I carried a bread roll temperature auditor on one of my flights.
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There is a Manager based at Waterworld (or should that be Centre of the Universe ? )who is in charge of PLANTS , yes that's right those green leafy things ........
BRING BACK THE YELLOW DOG NOW !!!
BRING BACK THE YELLOW DOG NOW !!!
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Have they done any 'pareto' analysis yet
This is when they investigate their product lines and find that 90% of the business comes from only 10% of the routes offered
This then results in axing the offending routes
This is when they investigate their product lines and find that 90% of the business comes from only 10% of the routes offered
This then results in axing the offending routes
I suggest that BA should split up the long haul and short haul businesses, with the short haul perhaps looking to follow the lead of the low cost operators in saving costs and trying to match them at their own game.
They could give the two airlines snazzy new names - such as British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways.
They could give the two airlines snazzy new names - such as British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways.
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If they wanted to stay in business they would have leaked saving £100 million. Instead the leaked cutting people. Draw your own conclusions about their perspective.
If I was Rod, or if Stelios was Rod, we would be saying to all our suppliers and employees "We have to cut costs - brutally. Help us or the costs will be cut - completely. Which do you want?".
Rod is no better then Bobby at understanding management is about getting things out of people, not getting people out.
If I was Rod, or if Stelios was Rod, we would be saying to all our suppliers and employees "We have to cut costs - brutally. Help us or the costs will be cut - completely. Which do you want?".
Rod is no better then Bobby at understanding management is about getting things out of people, not getting people out.
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White Knight,
In yesterdays Sunday Express business supplement it stated that easyJet have asked for more slots at Gatwick.
It says that easyJet would make Gatwick its major base with between 20 and 30 737's being eventually based there. This would provide approx 1600 people with jobs.
[ 10 December 2001: Message edited by: dwlpl ]
In yesterdays Sunday Express business supplement it stated that easyJet have asked for more slots at Gatwick.
It says that easyJet would make Gatwick its major base with between 20 and 30 737's being eventually based there. This would provide approx 1600 people with jobs.
[ 10 December 2001: Message edited by: dwlpl ]
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It may indeed be time for BA to start it's final slide, I shall watch with interest.
At the weekend, a programme reviewing the performance of the top 100 companies in the USA pointed out that the average time for a company to be in the top quartile of the field was 12 years. It might return but only after sliding out of the list, being changed and then climbing again.
At the weekend, a programme reviewing the performance of the top 100 companies in the USA pointed out that the average time for a company to be in the top quartile of the field was 12 years. It might return but only after sliding out of the list, being changed and then climbing again.
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I'm amazed at BA, it is obvious that an Airline makes money by flying people in aircraft, operated by pilots, crewed by cabin staff and fixed by engineers. If you get rid of routes, aircraft and their crews, you don't make money, which is the whole reason for running an airline in the first place! Sure, some routes don't make money, but it is probably served by the wrong aircraft type. If all else fails then find a new route to make money on.
