GB Pilots to join BA?
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I note with interest from this week's Flight International ('Routes' p 17) that GB are starting services next March from London Gatwick to Girona in mainland Spain and Mahon on the island of Menorca. Steady expansion which fights the low costers on their own turf sounds like good news to me.
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MaxAOB, your info is not quite right either.
It is a little more simple than 'having aggreements'.
If BA can't operate a flight due to a/c or crew going tech, they need to find another a/c and crew to operate the flight or cancel it. The prefered company to ask for BA to do so is GB for (like it or not) obvious reasons and visa versa. By the way, the two ops departments happen to get on very well and co operate whereever they can.
So, the BA aeroplane refered to earlier on in this thread was working on a 'sub' for GB.
GB often ask BA to operate a flight for them in times of nead but BA do not have much spare capacity so the next route of call is Excel, Air Atlanta...etc.
Regards to GB and BA pilots alike.
It is a little more simple than 'having aggreements'.
If BA can't operate a flight due to a/c or crew going tech, they need to find another a/c and crew to operate the flight or cancel it. The prefered company to ask for BA to do so is GB for (like it or not) obvious reasons and visa versa. By the way, the two ops departments happen to get on very well and co operate whereever they can.
So, the BA aeroplane refered to earlier on in this thread was working on a 'sub' for GB.
GB often ask BA to operate a flight for them in times of nead but BA do not have much spare capacity so the next route of call is Excel, Air Atlanta...etc.
Regards to GB and BA pilots alike.
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MaxAOB
I am sorry to piddle on your bonfire, but as a GB'er, I have used EOG machines as a stand in for the GB-300's a few times...Even heard a crew being called out to do a EOG route using our own GB-300 as EOG could not cover it !! Amazing how you seem to know more though !
I am sorry to piddle on your bonfire, but as a GB'er, I have used EOG machines as a stand in for the GB-300's a few times...Even heard a crew being called out to do a EOG route using our own GB-300 as EOG could not cover it !! Amazing how you seem to know more though !
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I've heard from a "source" that any airline joining the BA seniority list is required, for insurance purposes, to have all their pilots flight tested by BA instructors to ensure they reach the BA standard.
Anyone shed any light on this?
Anyone shed any light on this?
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It is probably true - and it certainly would not bother any GB pilot. There is something of a precedent in the current situation at GO/easyJet. For reasons of practicality there has been an initial period of parallel operations while SOPs etc are firmed up prior to full integration of the pilot workforce. At some stage there will be a time (I have heard March mentioned) where all pilots will be flying to the same hymnsheet and the same procedures. Presumably a similar situation would exist at BA/GB (or is it GB/BA?). The difference in this case is that GB SOPs are already virtually identical to BAs and vice versa so I cannot imagine any real snags. I just hope the situation never arises!
There are far bigger fish for both GB and BA to fry right now, and any takeover by BA of GB can only be an extremely unwelcome distraction at a time when all our minds should be focussed else where - like the forthcoming Gulf War or the threat from the Low Cost Airlines.
There are far bigger fish for both GB and BA to fry right now, and any takeover by BA of GB can only be an extremely unwelcome distraction at a time when all our minds should be focussed else where - like the forthcoming Gulf War or the threat from the Low Cost Airlines.
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Let's face it folks, if BA are going to set LGW up as part of BA CitiExpress, why would GB want to get involved. Tell me it's not true! It can only be bad for us. If I was a BA mate at LGW I'd be looking to fight that one before I worried about the Franchise part of SCOPE-good luck to all of you at in BA at LGW-you are going to need it!
