Can we all stop flying BA?

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Whenever there’s an airline strike it seems to be BA staff. The most recent of which seems greedy. Can we all just choose different airlines and let the airline that was in decades gone by a British standard carrier sink?

£100,000 plus, typically of your own money to train as a pilot.

Why on Earth do you disagree with the strike, OP?

I will never understand people who don't support the action of strikers who are being perfectly reasonable just because it inconveniences them. Strikes are meant to be inconvenient.

My favourite comment about a strike was on the Daily Mail comments section when one hard of thinking soul asked when teachers couldn't strike during the summer holidays so that parents didn't need to find childcare.

Asked why teachers!

I usually flying Singapore air or Emirates anyway.

Let me think

Oh yes airmile reward flights to europe £35 each
2 flights Barbados £525 for 2
Flight to Tampa £474 for 2
Stop using avios airmiles ....not a chance

Other airlines have far more disruptions

They also gave us $800 each plus hotel for volunteering to be bumped off a flight

@Basketofkittens there are laws to protect us against all of those things

Why do you think that is coffee?

It's because trade unions fought for those rights!

HermioneWeasley

I avoid BA if I possibly can. They have a major IT fail every year plus a strike plus I hear nothing but horror stories about their service when things go wrong

Are you sure about that ???

'We'? And all you have is 'it just seems greedy'.

We are booked with ba on the strike dates do my return from USA is cancelled.
Now I am not overly fussed and strikes are fine.
But BA has not handled this well by sending out thousands of cancellations at 8pm Friday on a bank holiday weekend and then not answering their phones for rebooking.
I will just to have to hope I can get through next week and they can rebook me to something else. Which is a bit scary to fly off with no return sorted but I am east cost America, there are many flights back via many routes and my job is flexible. And worse cones to worse I can pay whatever it costs for a flight back if it comes to it and claim back later. Lots of people can't risk that.

I only fly ba. Or easyJet. My flight is affected on the 9th and am waiting for updates. To add my cousin is a ba captain and I support them. They work bloody hard. It’s the administration that has screwed up the comms to passengers

BA has not handled this well by sending out thousands of cancellations at 8pm Friday on a bank holiday weekend

That'll be because BALPA announced the strike dates 4 hours earlier. Would you rather it hit the press and BA held off advising cancellations until 8am Tuesday?

Like I could afford to fly BA in the first place

Like I could afford to fly BA in the first place

Often cheaper than budget airlines.

Personally I'd pay the pilots whatever they damn well asked for.

Presumably you'd be happy to pay far higher prices then????

And see 40,000 people unemployed including my husband. No thanks.

Sorry but I’ve just had two really good flights with BA, great service in flight and airport, bang on time, seats together and baggage all returned safely, great price and deal+ I feel safe on their flights.

Really don’t want them to sink but would like them to improve their customer service and get a pasting for how they’ve handled this.

I meant the aren’t being greedy

I support the strike.

And I use whichever airline offers me the best flight for the best price.

It's not all about holidays though is it?

I support the pilots' right to strike but if I need to fly to the U.K. to visit a dying relative there is no way I am booking with BA until the problems are resolved.

In any case we have a choice of 3 airlines and BA are almost always the most expensive and not the most comfortable

"£100,000 plus, typically of your own money to train as a pilot."

It drives me mental when people wheel out this one. It costs people tens of thousands of their own money to go to university in the hopes of securing a decent salary for life. Why should pilots be any different?

I am all for pilots being properly remunerated - and the BA pilots are. The only shred of sympathy I have with the pilots is that they took a pay cut on a promise of a pay rise in better times. That was a stupid promise for BA to make, and I have no idea how the promise was couched (i.e. whether the pilots were stupid to rely on it). However, most people don't get the option of taking a pay cut in bad times - they simply get laid off.

It drives me mental when people wheel out this one. It costs people tens of thousands of their own money to go to university in the hopes of securing a decent salary for life. Why should pilots be any different?

They shouldn't be any different.

People who spent thousands going to University should be paid accordingly for the job they do.

Let's fight for everyone to be paid what they deserve, not the other way round.

Why is it that the small minded people only think these things happen in the UK? Expand your horizons a bit, it happens world wide, we just don't get to hear about it as much.

Well yes @Kazzyhoward. Flights are far too cheap as they are. Most airlines are struggling as they all try to compete with the super budget airlines, which themselves make a loss on the basic ticket price - they only make money on the bolt-ons like priority boarding / checked baggage etc

Your post is ridiculous!

I am a frequent flyer. I like BA because I know they are meticulous about safety.

Easyjet have cancelled 5 flights of mine in last year. They don't give a stuff. BA picked up the pieces and got me to and from my destinations.

Stop moaning

Well yes @Kazzyhoward. Flights are far too cheap as they are.

So increase prices to pay higher wages..
Leads to fewer people travelling..
Leads to fewer flights..
Leads to redundancies.

It's all a balancing act. Prices need to be cheap to fill the flights to pay the leasing, wages and other expenses. Mess up the equilibrium and it's no longer a sustainable model.