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Well now it seems that, in spite of voting for a “strike”, the simpleton BA aircrews didn’t realise that this meant 12 days of industrial action and over Christmas as well.
Guess who has just become the world’s most HATED airline???
Meanwhile on tonight’s news – apparently a cheap airline based in Edinburgh has just been put into Administration. Thousands of passengers stranded and thousands more, who have paid for seats, will lose their money.
Also, 700 staff have all been made redundant as at today. This is prety bad news for the airline industry and even worse news for striknig BA aircrews – one less potential employer when they and their beloved union, drive their current employer under.
Oh and while I’m at it …. here’s one for Martin “The Hoff” Reed >>>>>>>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXoFGopZnQ&feature=related
They still knock ….. but nowadays it’s twice on the pipe.
WOW !!! That takes me back a bit. Even Hughie Green looks young ….. and did anybody spot the ‘8 track stereo cassete’??? Ah, those were the days !!!
That’s an odd shaped mains driven vibrator she’s holding !
Mind you, it was the April 2002 edition so maybe they looked like that back then.
Hello ‘effed off’ from Dundee. The thing that intrigues me about all this is the fact that females are responsible for these attacks.
I suspect there is a generally held misconception that it is primarily males who sexually abuse children etc – but they are not alone, as these stories confirm.
Maybe its because we are all reluctant to believe that the ‘caring nurturing’ sex (yes I mean women) could do such things. However, history has shown the female of the species to be more deadly than the male.
Pete, to the extent that somebody else didn’t introduce BA’s pay structure for them, then I guess you’re right.
However, again to put this issue into context, it has to be remembered that BA was originally a “state sponsored” airline and was run along traditional civil service lines for decades. Their current situation has come about by all the “old practices” (and that includes all the enhanced pension schemes and ‘traditionally’ high salary and benefit structures) being incorporated into the current public company, way back when it was originally privatised.
They managed for years to survive and make a profit, facing competition only from ‘foreign’ airlines, until the market was ‘de-regulated’ and the current batch of “low cost” airlines sprang up.
These airlines work on a much tighter business model with lower levels of staffing and substantially lower costs. Result is they charge lower fares and therefore are taking business away from BA.
@jen_jen wrote:
@forumhostpb wrote:
be flat chested (the bra having been previously burnt)
Does burning your bra make you flat-chested then?
Apparently so. It seems that setting fire to bras – and thus not wearing them – removes all possibility of support and over time the breasts sag lower and lower (towards the navel) thus giving a ‘flat chested’ appearance.
A major face lift operation is said to delay the onset of ‘female breast sag’ – but don’t take this as a reccomendastion.
Thank goodness I didn’t ever fancy her …… look how badly she’s aged.
Some interesting (and perhaps predictable) points – but consider the following figures which appeared in today’s Daily Telegraph and were sourced from the Civil Aviation Authority;
Airline
Total flight crew cost/flight—- Average incomeBA …………… £15,051 ……………………………. £29,900
easy Jet…….. £3,016 ……………………………….£20,200
BMI………….. £1,645 ………………………………..£18,400
Monarch…….. £1,313 ……………………………….£17,500
Thomas Cook..£1,718………………………………. £17,400
Virgin Atlantic..£4,378………………………………. £14,400
Thompson…….£2,174 ………………………………. £14,100
From the above ‘average’ salaries (across all aircrew) you can readily see that the ‘blue’ coloured ones pay below the average ….. the ‘green’ coloured ones pay around the industry average …….and BA pays way over the top of any of its competitor airlines.
What is particularly significant is the total cost of all flight crew PER FLIGHT.
BA pays nearly FIVE times as much, in crew costs per flight, than its next highest salary paying airline (easy Jet) and an amazing TEN times more that the average salary paying airlines.
In essence, BA has to pay some £65 + per passenger per flight in crew costs alone compared with an industry average of some £10.55 per passenger per flight.
These numbers alone tell you why it is essential for BA to reduce its crew costs as well as the actual number of crew per flight if it has any hope at all of remaining not only competitive – but in business at all.
