Originally Posted by cameramaker

I know very little about the cabin crew fleets etc, but wouldn’t a more pragmatic way forward be to reduce the entitlements of WW and reduce the size of that fleet?

Eg a 5 day trip to South Africa could be cut to 3 days, like I imagine it would be on Mixed Fleet and therefore you’d need fewer crew to run these routes.

Surely that would make a significant dent in the crew cost to the airline?

It’s not the fault of the employees that BA decided to pay them £40k at some point, but now market conditions are such that far fewer £40k cabin crew are required.

Wouldn’t this have been a better starting point than the slash and burn approach they’ve taken to date?