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BA forgot that they have 357 shafted people to prioritise first. If you ask me, it was just another move in order to further irritate the BACC and create even worst relations.
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No........
Think LONGER........
Also, how very interesting that BA have a surplus of 320 crew at LHR, but because the terms are so rubbish at LGW they will now recruit externally to fill those roles (if anyone is daft enough to leave Easy etc to lower their salary with BA - remember this is BA that HAS made pilots redundant, an presumably will again should the need arise).
So we have BA with (say) 700x 320 pilots at LHR, but only needs (say) 600, and has a need for (say) 150x pilots at LGW.... but rather than offer reasonable terms so 100 transfer from LHR to LGW, BA would rather recruit (or try to recruit) 150 more pilots.... thereby they now have 850x Airbus pilots when they only really need 750! Clever (not).
Any another thing..... no inflationary pay rises until AT LEAST January 2024 (and that is only the ~4% that was promised in January 2021 (thereby hopefully taking us back to ~100% of January 2020 pay - remember even after CRS finishes we will still have the ~4% long term reduction)). This is NOT a clever position to be in as RPI inflation was just announced to be 6% and climbing.... 4 years of 6% is.... urmmmmm..... 26.2%..... thats 26.2% DOWN on purchasing power... SUPER
No........
Think LONGER........
Also, how very interesting that BA have a surplus of 320 crew at LHR, but because the terms are so rubbish at LGW they will now recruit externally to fill those roles (if anyone is daft enough to leave Easy etc to lower their salary with BA - remember this is BA that HAS made pilots redundant, an presumably will again should the need arise).
So we have BA with (say) 700x 320 pilots at LHR, but only needs (say) 600, and has a need for (say) 150x pilots at LGW.... but rather than offer reasonable terms so 100 transfer from LHR to LGW, BA would rather recruit (or try to recruit) 150 more pilots.... thereby they now have 850x Airbus pilots when they only really need 750! Clever (not).
Any another thing..... no inflationary pay rises until AT LEAST January 2024 (and that is only the ~4% that was promised in January 2021 (thereby hopefully taking us back to ~100% of January 2020 pay - remember even after CRS finishes we will still have the ~4% long term reduction)). This is NOT a clever position to be in as RPI inflation was just announced to be 6% and climbing.... 4 years of 6% is.... urmmmmm..... 26.2%..... thats 26.2% DOWN on purchasing power... SUPER
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Friendly Low Fares will be the way forward. Basic pay is streets ahead of this. Captains should be grossing around £125K with sector pay/allowances. Pension contribution of 10% and probably about to start hiring for the expanding Airbus fleet.
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any information floating about regarding the kind of assessments they're going to have ? Also how many bodies they're looking at hiring ? asking for a friend
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Plus profit share once we get past Covid Captains would have been looking at almost an extra 20k on top of your figures in 2020 had the dastardly virus not emerged...
Not to mention when they inevitably open a LGW base and fill it with 321s you will have the reality of BA pilots looking across the apron at Jet2 pilots flying the same airplanes 50% less annually and earning 20 - 30% more than them. Crazy times.
Plus profit share once we get past Covid Captains would have been looking at almost an extra 20k on top of your figures in 2020 had the dastardly virus not emerged...
Not to mention when they inevitably open a LGW base and fill it with 321s you will have the reality of BA pilots looking across the apron at Jet2 pilots flying the same airplanes 50% less annually and earning 20 - 30% more than them. Crazy times.
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BA to rehire 4000 in post Covid splurge.
If they're expecting to hire all on terms that are below or even at pre Covid rates, they're in for a nasty shock. The price of everything is up. People are no longer stupid. Everyone is demanding more. My friends working in Tech are seeing rises of 30-50% Builders are doubling everything and those who worked in hospitality are realising they can make 2-3x more working as pickers at Amazon.
BA's overzealous chopping was false economy. Complete and utter failure of executive greed facilitated by unwise and foolish bean counters.
If they're expecting to hire all on terms that are below or even at pre Covid rates, they're in for a nasty shock. The price of everything is up. People are no longer stupid. Everyone is demanding more. My friends working in Tech are seeing rises of 30-50% Builders are doubling everything and those who worked in hospitality are realising they can make 2-3x more working as pickers at Amazon.
BA's overzealous chopping was false economy. Complete and utter failure of executive greed facilitated by unwise and foolish bean counters.
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Being almost 6000 miles away from LGW I've no real feeling for the situation there but in my part of the world despite similar price increases, I see zero evidence of any improvements with any T & Cs being offered in any element of the industry .
Very good points NM but requiring the right to live and work in the UK does not feature in the advert although it burried in a PDF further into the process. Another example of ambiguity.
Are they going to use the B737 max?
