TUI have been amazing !! I think many will chuck an application in after the air has cleared !
MIYA in times like these company’s show the true colours

Flap80 must be a delight to fly with....Enjoys the benefits the union got him but had BA said 787’s to go, he’d be outside with a “BA betrayal” banner calling foul play.

Good luck to you guys, sounds like you need it with colleagues like that!
TUI is right now the best pilot gig in the UK hands down, great agreement by both parties.

Re:TUI, I would wait and see how the dust settles before thinking bullets have been dodged. I can see managers coming back for more if this drags on past the Summer. I don’t know when TUI makes most of its money , but I would be pretty concerned if they weren’t flying pax soon.

Obvioulsy people are cautious, however they are flying and the bookings are higher than expected for August. The belt is tight and the measures are in place for a year, hopefully next year, from April to October, the loads will be sufficiently high so the aircrew can feel more relaxed. That said, there were several cuts made elsewhere, it’s a different beast as to what BA is after all. The way the management approached the whole thing was second to none!

Pure LIFO or a weighted matrix was never realistic given the shear scale of the crisis. The CRS is a good scheme and it will have pilots in it who are being paid more than those who are working. It goes both ways

Be grateful of a job, be grateful of the CRS. Some will have neither. It’s **** but we will only get through it by not turning on each other. The alternative is fire and rehire. On that basis potential CRS occupants would be in a very precarious position.

Hey Dave, great post. Go fornicate yourself.

I hope your children or your marriage won't ever suffer because you ended up on the wrong fleet, with the wrong seniority, and 66% of junior FO pay keeps you awake at night but you keep telling yourself "if I get it I'm the lucky one because I still have a job". Along with two others because one shelf stacking job at mimimum wage doesn't quite make up for the loss of earnings and my family insist on food and a roof over their heads. Sorry we're all such a burden.

Bex88,

Why would those in the CRS end up in a precarious position? Quite simply, we have a contract. Independent legal advice sought by several/many from differing lawyers/solicitors has been very encouraging suggesting (yes, not 100% I know) that if BA to make people redundant and the order disagrees with our contracts then we would stand in a very strong position. Of the two that I have spoken with, both have copies of our contracts. Arguably if BA was about to go bust then things may be different, but it isn't. It still has a HUGE cashpile available to use and what's more it has masses of offers of cash in terms of funding from multiple reliable sources.

"The alternative is fire and rehire". You can't simply make stuff up like this, it scares people left right and centre and is factually incorrect. It's the type of stuff Mr Cruz or the DFO would send out in order to convice pilots to agree to a bad deal - bully them into it.
The business is not about to go bust (read independent information / companies house info / business analysts opinions) - it is quite simply illegal to fire and rehire in this position.
Our strength lies in our contracts which both we and BA signed when we joined. We are both bound by it and will be subject to significant financial penalty if we don't adhere to it.

Article regarding the threat of fire and rehire by the bullying gangster sociopaths.

‘Many European countries have legislation preventing this kind of Dickensian industrial relations policy – ironically including Spain and Ireland, home of Iberian and Aer Lingus, both part of IAG.’

https://www.politicshome.com/thehous...uld-be-illegal

Please tell us why you are more deserving than anyone else? Some would say that you have dug your own hole, seduced by Conservative dogma that if you are "ambitious" enough, you can't lose.........

Pretty simple really... I'm not more "deserving" than anyone else. We all "deserve" equal based on equal loyalty, and given we aren't all equally loyal (some chose/choose to work elsewhere first then join present company) that gives us the variable (seniority). More significantly I believe if you don't more or less adhere to LIFO then as a career becoming a pilot becomes worthless. What happens when the next slightest downturn happens? CR, manipulated to get rid of those who are most expensive. This makes our profession relatively unique: we cannot move to other companies on similar salaries nor in similar positions.

As for digging my own hole.. If that's holding a modest house on an estate with a cheap car and some rather large training loans to repay then yes, I've dug my own hole. Tut tut.

Meanwhile...news is at least some of those who registered an interest in VR off the popular fleets (specifically 787), a few quite senior, are being denied parole.

I hope that doesn't mean more CR elsewhere to make the numbers balance....

How has nobody mentioned that spending 50% of your basic income on your mortgage payments is terrible financial planning!?

For info, this is very similar to how it worked when VR was available in Monarch at the end of 2014.

Senior Birmingham based Captains were denied VR due lack of Captains at Birmingham whilst slightly less senior Captains at Gatwick took up the opportunity of VR as Monarch had a surplus of Captains at Gatwick (a long established base).

Company requirements.

In BAs case, replace a base with an aircraft fleet..

Sorry.

I’m guessing you’re of the previous generation? Seen the price of properties in S/E England?

Alternatively, pay rent into someone else’s pocket, likely similar costs to a mortgage without the security of your own home or the potential for future capital growth...

I was born in the 70’s and have had it ok (could’ve done a lot better had I understood financial planning better in my more junior years and that would’ve involved taking on Mortgage debt).
To suggest poor financial planning to those who’ve had little choice but to take on large debt to progress a career or have a half decent home for their families, is a little crass. What choice have more recent generations had? Bank of mum and dad (lucky few); don’t follow a dream or sign contracts = stay in the soul destroying previous employment that may or may not have paid well?
Borrowing to 50% income may not be wise, but perhaps there was little other choice - after all, where does anyone get to in life, without taking some risk....

It won't effect me personally but it's leaving a sour taste in some mouths..

It would be fairly scandalous to say you’re trying to save as many jobs as possible, and then reject VR applications from those who are trying to help you achieve your ‘aim’.

Some dont seem to realise that in this game the company has the bat and the ball.
BALPA may not be everyones cup of tea but from the initial starting point proposals they appear to have done pretty well.

Couldn’t a leaving date be agreed for those wanting to voluntarily leave the ‘favoured’ fleet(s) once an appropriate replacement is trained from one of the ‘unpopular’ fleets? I’m not party to any of this but isn’t that the idea of the pool of circa 300 retained pilots?

probably because anyone who did; would sound like a pompous tw@t.

I’m not especially surprised they are denying VR from the 787. They didn’t really want to offer VR at all, but probably decided to, because it gives them the flexibility to pick and choose who they let go. Also, they were not keen on part time for all (which would have removed the need for any CR) because they didn’t want 787 and A350 guys going part time and increasing the retraining load onto those fleets.