That letter is truly very bad in my view, very crass and blunt indeed.
In my early 20's I was in the construction industry and it was sometimes the case to be given a weeks notice as it was back then but it was well known. To treat these BA employees, some of whom will have no doubt been with BA for years and years, decades perhaps, is beyond words.
If it was for commercial reasons I can see in business these things happen, however it's the way has been done. The BA brand is most definitely more tarnished in my view in this regard.
Call me cynical in my older age but they seem to be trying to bury this news with much more reported other news in recent days and weeks, far more announcements than usual.
There's a fine balance to being prudent as a company versus actually treating people as real human beings which BA on this particular issue have made a real insensitive mess of.
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