Neil, I have a friend who is cabin crew for BA and things are worse than you could imagine. Back in the boom of the late 80s and early 90s, BA was the airline to work for and their trolley dollies were considered "glamorous" enough to pull salaries of up to 100,000 quid. Thanks to BA's extremely militant union, these glamorous twentysomethings are now haggard/lazy fortysomethings and still driving Porsches and drawing huge salaries. Some of the stories I've been told about their idleness, arrogance, and out-right thievery are appalling. BA can't fire them, they agree to only token pay reduction, and they won't take redundancies in sufficient numbers to make any difference to the balance sheet.
It would be best if the airline went bust, the whole thing is rotten. The management and the union are killing the company. Airlines aren't the cashcow they once were, but no-one at BA seems to getting this. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
