Can I help you

The minimum crew is low enough, nobody would want less than that.

BA.MF.CSM

I believe the SYD flight was subbed to a -200.

Kind regards

BA.MF.CSM

Agent69

My comments were based on figures quoted earlier in this thread: Just over 60% of MF crew are in Unite and the last ballot had 72% participation with 56% in favour of strike action. Multiply the 3 figures together and you get just over 25% of MF voting for strike action.

What are your figures and where do they come from?

Strikers reaction to the latest call for further action reminds me of the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson (I paraphrase slightly) "ours is not to reason why, ours is just to do and die"

Agent69

So would it not have been better to ascertain the facts before posting something that is clearly incorrect and misleading?

BApilotinsider

Given the length of the action strikers may find their mind focussed after 12 weeks since the action began...

From the Government website

"After 12 weeks, you can be dismissed if you take industrial action and your employer has tried to settle the dispute."

Let's hope both sides see sense before such time.

pomkiwi

As far as I am aware there is a monthly limit on duty hours of 100 and an annual limit of 900 hours. The longer the dispute goes on the more likely those working are to get close to 900 hours for the year. This will reduce options moving forward.

PrimaVista

This is highly dubious.

I can't find any -200 sub going back to the beginning of June.

Guy Betsy

Which routes are MF from LHR?

Is ZRH affected?

PETER01

Healthy debate is good but whichever side of the fence you are on can we please leave out personal remarks as it really does the thread and it's meaning no good, nor it's readers. Please.

NandoDave

From the Wiki

Zurich is not on the list.

BA.MF.CSM

My bad in that case, dodgy intel!

A -300 would not have gone with 8 crew ex-LHR, just no way that would happen.

Kind regards

BA.MF.CSM

Jumbodriver

I think some of us just don't believe that Unite actually have MFs best interests at heart and are playing a wider political game with BA using MF as pawns.

If they had taken the ACAS pay deal in December they would be a couple of months away from having their pay benchmarked and hopefully improved to what they expected. They would also have had time to regroup and get sufficient members to actually worry BA next year if things didn't go well.

They never had an exit strategy or told the strikers what they were going for. Ask 10 strikers what they would come back to work for and you'll get 10 different answers.

I've also done enough MF trips during strikes to know that only 10 turning up out of 22 is unusual to the point of incredulity. I haven't personally seen less than 18 turn up for a 380 trip and have never left LHR more than 2 crew members light out of 22.

I was at CRC tonight and the SYD left fully crewed with 0 standbys used. Both 380 departures today were the same.

I have very personal reasons to want MF to be paid well and treated properly, but, this strike is doing precisely nothing to help that. A large number of working MF crew will never join/rejoin the union as a result of Unite MFs behaviour over the last 6 months and that sadly will be why in the long term Unite will fail their members, because they will never be unified.

orbitmic

They may or may not, but in fairness, the strikes could only take place because of a vote. If significantly more people have decided to vote in favour of the strikes than to vote against them, it means that somehow, the crew in question have decided that this was their best or least bad option.

As for the possibility of crew being dismissed because of their striking, it would also not penalise Unite but Mixed Fleet crew themselves and even though I'm sure that the reference is not intended with any negativity, I'm not sure that it is very helpful. Incidentally, that a Court would decide that the employer has made genuine and satisfactory attempts to resolve the dispute is massively uncertain (the spirit of that article is effectively to penalise dishonest strike action to be clear).

For what it's worth, I think that MF are expressing great distress at their work and pay conditions and that they are facing a complete lack of interest on the part of management so I personally cannot blame them for their hard and painful choice even though I've been directly affected by its consequences for several of my trips since the beginning of the strikes.

ahmetdouas

I really doubt BA sacking all the striking MF fleet would do good for its PR.

Welcome On Board

Strikers rosters have been wiped til the end of August now so all the flights will be rostered with non strikers, hence why you won't see many no shows.