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Search: Posts Made By: La Pouquelaye
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Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
2nd Feb 2010, 20:22
Replies: 16
Views: 4,767
Posted By La Pouquelaye

No, I have never asked for a "free upgrade". If...

No, I have never asked for a "free upgrade". If the carrier wishes to grant me one, of course I do not refuse. Like many frequent travellers I take advantage of FF programmes, and reap the benefits...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
2nd Feb 2010, 17:36
Replies: 16
Views: 4,767
Posted By La Pouquelaye

This is so typical these days: people thinking...

This is so typical these days: people thinking that the world (and airlines run as profit-making businesses) owe them something for nothing.

Get over yourself. Air Canada is not the British...
Forum: Cabin Crew
1st Feb 2010, 23:41
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

MarkyMark will probably claim that BA's IT...

MarkyMark will probably claim that BA's IT department/BASSA publicity flacks/PCCC saboteurs/the man in the moon has hacked into his email account and forged the messages ostensibly sent by him.
Forum: Cabin Crew
1st Feb 2010, 23:09
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Watersidewonker seems to be doubtful - very...

Watersidewonker seems to be doubtful - very doubtful indeed - of what will come out of Court No. 23:



Call me a cynic, but that does not seem like one hundred per cent confidence in her...
Forum: Cabin Crew
1st Feb 2010, 08:55
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Snas

10/10!! Well said.
Forum: Cabin Crew
1st Feb 2010, 08:45
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Theme Tunes

If BASSA have selected a Cheryl Cole song as a theme tune for their campaign (as reported here), perhaps BA should choose one as well?

I think that Willie Walsh would go for "I Did It My Way", or...
Forum: Cabin Crew
31st Jan 2010, 22:16
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

I think the (long-term) result will be...

I think the (long-term) result will be gotterdamerung, or "a twilight of the gods", as Richard Wagner had it. In other words, mortal damage to both parties.

BASSA, in my opinion, seems to be...
Forum: Cabin Crew
31st Jan 2010, 21:44
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

High Court on Tuesday?

Would anyone care to join me for a drink on Tuesday when the High Court adjourns for lunch?

We could discuss the BASSA vs British Airways case on a ball-by-ball basis.
Forum: Cabin Crew
31st Jan 2010, 14:29
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Who knows? Perhaps Miz Liz Malone can't get a...

Who knows? Perhaps Miz Liz Malone can't get a flight from her bunker to London in time for tomorrow?
Forum: Cabin Crew
31st Jan 2010, 14:10
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Correction

CORRECTION:

Delete: "No one even knows"
Insert : "BASSA leadership has no earthly idea"
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 23:14
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Indeed it is - thirty pieces of silver (or £30) a...

Indeed it is - thirty pieces of silver (or £30) a day. That's a really good return for all those monthly subscriptions deducted from every member's pay.
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 21:04
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

The so-called "ninety day rule"

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!

So many contributors are getting their knickers in a twist over this so-called "ninety-day rule" - and all for nothing.

Has anyone repeat anyone seen this...
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 19:04
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Us and them

Dididi's initial posting to this thread seemed brave and totally genuine - until he/she wrote this:

I realise that this is cynical, but the highlighted bit could just about be construed as...
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 15:28
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

FAO: Litebulbs

Thanks for your quick responses!

Re your 3657: :-)

And your 3658: :-\
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 15:00
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

And I am struggling to understand your...

And I am struggling to understand your arithmetic!

It was my understanding that between ten to twelve thousand BA cabin crew are subscription paying members of BASSA.

Or am I mistaken?


...
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 12:06
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Yep, just like this thread. Plus ça...

Yep, just like this thread.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 11:42
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Yet more "good news" in civil aviation . . .

Yet another wave of involuntary cabin crew redundancies?? BBC News - Big drop in profits at budget airline Flybe (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/8487983.stm)

Or conversely more keen,...
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 07:53
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

At a pinch we could settle for a BASSA outsider,...

At a pinch we could settle for a BASSA outsider, too.
Forum: Cabin Crew
30th Jan 2010, 06:18
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

What's the latest bulletin from...

What's the latest bulletin from BASSA/Unite/Amicus/CC89, please?

Have Watersidewonker, MissM and all the other pro-union apologists resigned from this thread in sympathy with A Lurker? We haven't...
Forum: Cabin Crew
29th Jan 2010, 17:46
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

A little light relief

YouTube - Airline cuts push Hitler over the edge! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvdp1-9n8Dg)
Forum: Cabin Crew
29th Jan 2010, 17:17
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Congratulations to m4rx on dealing so capably...

Congratulations to m4rx on dealing so capably with a hot potato. Welcome back!
Forum: Cabin Crew
29th Jan 2010, 07:17
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Litebulbs (again!)

Now you are clutching at straws. A "win" for whom: BA management - or BASSA intransigence?

No one is going to "win" this dispute, but a hell of a lot of flight attendants, cabin crew (call them...
Forum: Cabin Crew
29th Jan 2010, 07:04
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Litebulbs

Just which "external influences" would they be?
Forum: Cabin Crew
28th Jan 2010, 22:45
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Time to stop this needless bickering

C'mon you guys, stop all this unnecessary bickering; you are playing right into Willie Walsh's hands. Miz Liz Malone and her lackeys are also enjoying every moment, too.

Have none of you ever...
Forum: Cabin Crew
28th Jan 2010, 12:20
Replies: 28
Views: 6,843
Posted By La Pouquelaye

I think the word schadenfreude would definitely...

I think the word schadenfreude would definitely apply in that instance.
Forum: Cabin Crew
28th Jan 2010, 07:22
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

I am convinced that, if there is an all-out...

I am convinced that, if there is an all-out strike, Miz Liz Malone will lead her troops from the rear, i.e. the comfort of her California bunker.

According to reports on this thread, the flight...
Forum: Cabin Crew
27th Jan 2010, 21:38
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

In that case why are you dawdling and wasting...

In that case why are you dawdling and wasting time? You are not "afraid" in the slightest.
Forum: Cabin Crew
27th Jan 2010, 19:35
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

I suppose it is too late to wish BASSA's...

I suppose it is too late to wish BASSA's copywriter the complements of the season?:E

Has BASSA never heard of 'spell check'?
Forum: Cabin Crew
27th Jan 2010, 19:23
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art...

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other...
Forum: Cabin Crew
27th Jan 2010, 17:31
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

A thought from the Fort

It will be very easy for BA management to ascertain who was actually on strike.

The company has made it absolutely clear that those flight attendants who go sick during any strike will have...
Forum: Cabin Crew
27th Jan 2010, 12:13
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Association of Flight Attendants

Thanks for your prompt responses, deeceethree and Human Factor.

Apparently, the "Association of Flight Attendants" is a trade union in its own right, and has no connection with the nascent...
Forum: Cabin Crew
27th Jan 2010, 11:57
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Absent Friends?

I notice that the Department of Transport website Annex D - List of consultees (http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/closed/annualleaveconsul/allistofconsultees)
lists the following trades union...
Forum: Cabin Crew
26th Jan 2010, 18:03
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Where are they now?

I notice that the usual BASSA diehards have been conspicuous by their absence from this forum over the last week?

Does anyone know why?
Forum: Cabin Crew
25th Jan 2010, 18:11
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

Musings from Fort Regent

In his recent posting RG stated, 'inter alia' that:

I do not think that anyone will disagree with the first sentence quoted above, but I must take exception to the rest.

British Airways' most...
Forum: Cabin Crew
25th Jan 2010, 17:52
Replies: 3,879
Views: 578,017
Posted By La Pouquelaye

A possibility that strikers may have to face

One medium- to long-term consequence that striking BA cabin crew may well have to face is the humiliation of having to reapply for their own jobs.

A thoughtful and thought-provoking article on...
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