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BA Pilots: Please Stop Our Strike



BA Pilots: Please Stop Our Strike | AVIATION WEEK

Pilot union vs. Cabin crew union

HercDriver130

if the BA pilots don't support the strike of the cabin crew they should be shot!! Greedy aholes.

filejw

Not sure who is greedy here. The BA FA's want to continue practices that other airlines gave up long ago, like flight leads that don't actually work just watch an tell folks what to do..I'm not for crossing picket lines but speaking up when needed is a good idea...

KoruPilot

And for the folks in the cheap seats. . . your airline is on the verge of bankruptcy!

Sorry, not a fan, inclined to agree with filejw.

BA Pilot

Well, it just goes to show that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Maybe if you researched the situation you would understand a little better.

In any case, all the pilots are asking is for the new UK Government to try to broker a settlement to prevent job losses.

HercDriver130

Fair enough.... brokering and agreement would be one thing, but if the govt is allowed to place an injunction on the FA's from striking that is wrong.

Sniper

When I read things like "Some pilots have trained as cabin crew to help fill gaps and keep aircraft flying during the labor unrest", it's hard.

Pilots not supporting a strike? Alright.

Pilots asking the government to step in to mediate and prevent a strike? Maybe, if I knew the whole story.

Pilots training to scab? I don't know how much research I'd need to agree that this is not crossing the line (literally), but its more than the cursory explanation of 'feather-bedding' given on this thread so far.

Care to explain, or at least give us a link to 'the other side of the story', so that those on 'the other side of the pond' can understand what's going on here?

PCLCREW

Greedy... Man these guys have a great job, whith great work rules and bene's... This strike will hit BA hard.
I agree with the pilots.

hemaybedid

In my humble opinion pilot's and cabin crew are two completely different animals. If I were a pilot working for a carrier at which I had invested years and/or wagered the rest of my career I would have a hard time not doing all that I could to not allow low level employees to destroy it.

KoruPilot

hemaybedid

Yup, I second that. I've seen some of this in the past where people with a two to three week course dictate the future of a company because they all of the sudden think that they are unexendable. The amount of time and money invested by pilots doesn't begin to compare with the rest of the croud. I'd like to see good wages for everybody none the less, which the BA cabin crew currently have, so it leaves me wondering.

Not that I'm a huge fan of Walsh, but this is a bit out of hand. If it was my future, my career, my retirement, vs. the greed of a few people with an overinflated idea of their importance, I'd do what I had to do. I guess I've just met too many FA's who view themselves to be senior in the aircraft to flight crew, seriously, and have the attitude to go with it. I still get asked by cabin crew 'How do I ever get along without them? Who cooks my meals? Who does the doors?', and it's posed as a serious question. No offence, as I really liked a lot of the crew I worked with, but it is way more relaxed on a freighter, which just makes it more enjoyable for me as a pilot. But I got into this to fly airplanes, not because I whatched too many episodes of "Mile High". Again, no offense, but life as a pilot is just easier, better, and less complicated in freight.

God bless the freighter.