Frankly, the situation is quite clear – if the company has no resources to sustain current wages and there is no bank (or government for the sake) to lend additional money it all comes down to simple math – either British Airways will generate enough cashflow to survive or not. Each time I fly to London and back using staff travel (standby) is £91.96. But secondary. British Airways has issued a controversial ‘fire and rehire’ notice to its entire pilot workforce, threatening to sack every single pilot unless an agreement on new terms and conditions can be reached with the BALPA pilots union. To ride the back of an unprecedented crisis to make such a change in a way that would be effectively permanent is actively evil.Outrageous, cruel decisions made by a greedy board of directors and a blood thirsty crowd of shareholders..Yes Kirk H. Just another money grab by airlines which will never compensated again even when the airlines start doing well again and making billions which will happen. BA makes a profit on staff travel considering that we still had to pay to sit in a seat that would otherwise go empty (National Express from LHR to somewhere like MAN would have been cheaper than a BA standby ticket, so they’re not that cheap).If you ever fly BA and go to somewhere like MAN, EDI, GLA, etc it’s likely that you will see commuting crew in the gate with Silver and Gold luggage tags of their own. For example, British Airways has a distance based award chart, opening up some great award redemption opportunities. I now will choose another airline if this happens very disappointing the CEO should resign.Alex Cruz is part of this, but I suspect this is really the work of IAG chief Willie Walsh.As Richie Sunak is shortly going to make companies pay 25 t0 30% 0f furloughed wages, companies will soon start to make millions redundant. Please.
The employees then also have a stake in making sure the customers are treated well, so they don’t jump to the new carriers that will be coming.I think the time has come when people should realise the need of self reliant instead of looking for a career Into these firms who are running cos of we and when the get hit they pass it it to us, offer all the top 40 position no pay for a year , and I am sure their wages and bonus will save all others jobs, but see we have to learn that let’s start inspiring our coming generations to become self reliant, so let these companies find the solutions that bosses should come and start serving in flights while taking millions as bonusesI feel desperately sorry for the British Airways staff caught up in this horrendous situation.
Union supposed to be united this does not look united but corporate greed filtered out of the United Kingdom the UK Government needs to step in Imediatly.Max you are talking utter crap. There’s plenty of room for pushchairs, wheelchairs, skis and saxophones too. @Max I know WW cabin crew who commute from Berlin and they pay over 400 quid a month on staff travel ID 90 tickets.This is based on 10pc of a full fare and then there’s tax.Works out at around 98GBP and you’re not guaranteed a seat.So which part don’t you understand when it was put to you that staff travel is not free?.It’s a pity we have people on here who simply don’t know their facts.Lay’em all off. And there are more than enough senior flight attendants at BA who make approx. British Airways unveiled plans in April to make up to 12,000 staff redundant as demand collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
@ Max..I have written an answer to your recent comment, but the moderator has not approved yet. Only short longhauls with 1 night layover instead of 2 nights for the longer flights greatly reduces the time they spent doing other things.This just sums up your complete and utter lack of knowledge on what you claim.3.) The idea that a flight needs four pursers and a CSD is outdated and should be taken out. Others live in Spain and Portugal, with some evading tax there.