Cathay Pacific approached to operate BA flights during BA Cabin Crew strike
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As an outsider I'm baffled by the suicidal impulse displayed by the BA cabin crew.
They are putting at risk the company and their own jobs without that much justification and with very little public sympathy - classic 1970s 'organised labour' behaviour.
The whole thing's really weird. They must be wearing blinkers.
Tim
They are putting at risk the company and their own jobs without that much justification and with very little public sympathy - classic 1970s 'organised labour' behaviour.
The whole thing's really weird. They must be wearing blinkers.
Tim
Sounds dreadful to say, but I think alot of the BA Flight Crew are ungrateful for where they sit in the aviation industry as it is
I know a whole bunch of people who would love to be in a pilot job right now
Mate. I know News takes while to Arrive in Gove. The pilots have got nothing to do with this dispute. It's the Cabin Crew.
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Slight thread drift but...
If BA pilots are working as cabin crew on their days off during this dispute, does the CC duty time count towards flight crew duty time? And are there other FTL implications?
If BA pilots are working as cabin crew on their days off during this dispute, does the CC duty time count towards flight crew duty time? And are there other FTL implications?
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We've watched T&C's slowley slosh down the toilet over the last goodness knows how long, because, through no fault of our own, and often due to mismanagement, companies have had to make cuts to survive. These "cuts" never come back, that's why there are threads here where we all bitch and moan about the state of things in aviation, and why we get no respect, and we feel devalued as pilots etc......
Like it or not, BA c/crew are just looking after themselves, something we don't do very well at all.
Like it or not, BA c/crew are just looking after themselves, something we don't do very well at all.
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Don't know who was operating the evening BA flight into AMS yeaterday (white airbus) but seems odd not to have had the place in the fms database and need to rely on vectors from sugol. Very helpful atc both in the air and on the ground (and the crew did show their appreciation).
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Could well have been the Astraeus A320...they do have one operating for BA this weekend. I think it is in 'all white'. Being ACMI there are sometimes operations when the database requirements get a little ahead of what can be loaded into the FMC memory especially on the slightly older planes with limited memory.
