Congratulations, getting any size or shape of shirt out of uniform stores is a major victory.

Don't worry about altering shirts for size and fit, nobody is going to check. The main uniform crimes to steer clear off are firstly not wearing a hat and secondly don't sling your backpack over your shoulder as you walk through T5...

And with that, the dot you see is me off running for cover :E :E

Haha, perfect, cheers Wiggy! Appreciate the help.

Wrap days
 

Do you bid for if you want wrap days before or after the 7 days leave or is it lucky dip? Also any wrap days on the DFW or is that just 7 days starting Saturday?

Cheers
BL

No worries GS-Alpha, all clear now. My current outfit uses duty payments regardless of type of duty, hence my question.

Been wearing ill-fitting shirt for ten years now, I was hoping that was about to end wiggy! Oh well :}

Besides, a manager has to get close enough to read your name badge because no one knows who you are!!

That's why we nick the name badges that are pinned up in the bag store isn't it? I've been known as CSL Sharon for 6 months now.

Hahahaha, nice one Sharon!!

any chance we can knock this esoteric nonsense on its head? Thank you.

If i cared wether i was paid £ 2.93p per hour or £3.42 I dont think BA would be my choice. You're never going to be rich on todays TnCs.

If I'm being brutally honest, I don't have much formal education, so I don't really know what "esoteric nonsense" means, but this is the most amusing bit of the thread in many, many moons.

If 2.93 vs 3.42 doesn't interest you, save yourself the aggro of applying, dude, cuz that's the kind of $hit that battles are fought over at BA.

Best wishes with your application and your career.

Cheers

Buter

Buter

I think it means "sweating the small stuff"..and yes, it is indeed " the kind of $hit that battles are fought over at BA."

DEC Gatwick
 

Mate on the 380 at EK just advised me that there might be a small window of opportunity to go DEC 320 at Lgw later this year. Told him to keep smoking the fat one and stay out of the sun :{

No doubt with a seasonal contract too!:E

Why shouldn't there be DEC Captains at LGW? If no one's applying and there are vacancies, it can't be ruled out?

[QUOTE]Why shouldn't there be DEC Captains at LGW? If no one's applying and there are vacancies, it can't be ruled out?/QUOTE]
Maybe its a symptom of the poor T&C's down at LGW? At what stage would you start objecting to new pilots joining on inferior T&C's to you? When they start paying to fly?

Strange things are happening in BA at the moment. Personally I wouldn't rule anything out. The new CEO has some "interesting plans" rumour has it. Watch this space...

LGW becoming a UK Vueling base.

Why can't people get it through their heads that, although Vueling, Iberia and BA are part of the same group (IAG), they are completely separate companies with different business models etc! I know it's a rumour network but the scaremongering on here is quite frankly something ridiculous. I think the likely things to be happening are the removal of the complimentary bar on short haul and the outsourcing of engineering etc not completely changing the way short haul operates.


Isn't it a rather lazy rumour anyway? New BA CEO is ex Vueling so BA Short Haul simply has to be turning into Vueling!

I think a stick to beat senior first officers into taking short haul commands is far more likely. A reduction in the pay point freeze would do it. Bring it down to paypoint 5 and then open up a supplementary bid and the problem will be solved overnight. In my opinion, if they start employing DECs, the entire sytem will break down resulting in far too many undesirable consequences for the company.

GS-Alpha - they'll need to sort out the failure rate of LH SFOs coming over to the 320 for their commands first. It's over 50% - allegedly!

Instead of repeating dumb rumours without checking why not look at ibid C32's rosters from a few months ago? See who was converting and now see which of them aren't on the status list anymore.

There are very very few.

The fact the shorthaul operation hasn't collapsed ought to be a bit of clue. They'd be at least 50 Captains short.