British Airways to cut 1,700 cabin crew positions

inspector_monkfish

Now Aer Lingus are at it....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/07/aer-lingus-to-axe-jobs

mitchaa

I take it you mean this thread...

http://www.topix.com/forum/com/bab/TQ442BH57DHCEGF6M

Majority of replies posted by school children it appears. £200k+ is just laughable and completely untrue.

Your average pilot is on less than £100k, most earn in the region of £70-90k

http://www.2beapilot.co.uk/pilotpay.htm

inspector_monkfish

Mr_Matey wrote: »

Exactly!

I know 2 blokes who tried to become commercial pilots. It's a tough training programme. If you don't get sponsored it's very expensive to get the flight hours required, and you're not guaranteed a job once you've got them. Many people do a lot of "small time" piloting jobs before cracking into commercial. Oh and you've got to be quite smart.

At the end of the day would you want your bus driver performing an emergency landing or someone like C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/17/hudson.plane.crash/index.html

didnt he quit recently, because the salary was so bad?

sure i read that somewhere

Mr_Matey

Regarding Sullenberger, I'm not sure why he quit. Perhaps it was stress related. I read that he tried to get a job somewhere and they wouldn't hire him because he had a crash on his record. It was an Asian carrier I believe.

And yes I think a pilot should earn more than a GP and nurses. This is becoming a "who deserves to earn more" thread, and we're hearing the usual jealous whinges. Next you'll be complaining about football players.

inspector_monkfish

prob so he can earn more doing the celebrity circuit..

lemonjelly

back on topic (flight staff) in a previous job in housing I signed a young lady up for the tenancy of a flat. I remember it well....;)

She was BEE YOO TEE FULLLL!

I hope she isn't affected by this sad news. Perhaps I could (ahem) check on her wellbeing...

vivatifosi

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

didnt he quit recently, because the salary was so bad?

sure i read that somewhere

On the subject of Sullenberg, there's an update in the site below. He's still flying, but writing his memoirs as well...

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20091005_Winging_It__Sullenberger_touts_the_value_of_training.html

Wookster

I foresee angry unions and strikes.

gingerdad

I used to work for a smaller profitable airline, which BA saw, went we like that how do they do it, paid multi millions for it, moved the staff to BA T&C's and sold the airline 3 years later for a 1 pound (could be wrong on the amount but small) to FlyBe.......... with the way the operate they allways loose out to the easyjets/ ryanairs of this world to many expensive unionised old practices