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barkingmad wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:19 am

This might help to restore them to a profitable airline highly esteemed in the eyes of the travelling public;

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/17/in ... 03099.html

Then again it might just drag them down further.

I remember reading that the fat Spanish waiter had something like a 45% turnover in cabin crew when he was in charge of Vueling, a situation that he seems to be trying to replicate at BA, some of the new starters in my section are genuinely scary and shouldn’t be allowed out on the ramp near aircraft, not just my opinion, but they seem to want to get rid of us “classics “ and flood the area with the lowest possible level of new starter.

but they seem to want to get rid of us “classics “ and flood the area with the lowest possible level of new starter.

Many companies are going this way, including the one I used to work for.

Find the flaw in the logic :

John Smith worked his way up from the bottom of the industry, has worked and travelled all over the world and done everything from preparing loadsheets, checkin, ramp work, catering supervisor, ticketing, cabin crew training, pricing and distribution, manual pricing and issuance of tickets for complex journeys, ticket desk manager, airport duty manager, yield management ..... etc. He has been exposed to multi-cultural environments, speaks 5 languages, is 55 years old and earns £60,000 per annum.

Debbie Slagg has done a 6 month correspondence technical college course in 'travel management', barely knows Aberdeen (it's up Norff near Birmigam, innit?) from Abu Dhabi (yeah it's in Africa innit) has been on her 'olidays' to Magaluf and Ayia Nappa, not that she knows where they are, knows how to use the idiot-proof-until-it-goes-wrong click and point user interface designed by autistic 16 year olds in India, and is an 'airline sales executive'. She is 22 years old, and earns £20,000 per annum.

Simple, let's get rid of 1x John Smith and replace him with 3x Debbie Slagg, and we will get 3 new employees for the price of one old one.

The rumours have been going around for a while

Willie Walsh, the outgoing chief executive of International Airlines Group, is in a relationship with a colleague, which could raise questions over governance at the British Airways owner.

More bad publicity for BA, a Which report suggests that their fleet is responsible for more carbon emissions proportionately than other UK carriers. I'm assuming this is based partly on their large fleet of aging fuel-thirsty aircraft on l/h routes.

Maybe the hot air spouted by the fat Spanish waiter contributes significantly to global warming too.

I think somebody’s going to have a no tea and biccies meeting with their fleet manager, as this aircraft has only been in service for about 3 weeks

British Airways A350-1000 G-XWBD arrived into Tel Aviv in the early hours of this morning as BA163 from London Heathrow (depart London Heathrow 19th January), however the return BA162 was cancelled due to aircraft damage following a hard landing.

'A/C damage' or is this journalese for a hard landing check?

'LIght damage' and a hard landing check. Must have been a bad one as it looks as if the wingtips have been curled up.

Boac wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 22, 2020 12:52 pm

'LIght damage' and a hard landing check. Must have been a bad one as it looks as if the wingtips have been curled up.

ian16th wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 22, 2020 12:27 pm

'A/C damage' or is this journalese for a hard landing check?

It was actually from the BA Source, not the Fail.

Oh! or should that be Ooooh?

Read that it was ferried back.

PP

From Av Herald, a little more information:
"The Aviation Herald received information that the approach had been stable until about 70 feet AGL. At 70 feet AGL the sink rate increased to 1000 fpm, the pilot monitoring called "SINK RATE". Corrective inputs were made on the pilot flying's side stick, however insufficient to arrest the sink rate. According to flight data a loss of 5 knots of IAS occurred as result of a gust (increasing tailwind) which prompted a nose down input and high rate of descent. Maintenance travelled to Tel Aviv to assess the aircraft, the damage was assessed minor. The aircraft is estimated to return to service on Jan 22nd 2020 as flight BA-163 to Tel Aviv again."

I assume "a nose down input and high rate of descent." was due to pilot input. If it was software we have another 'Houston - we have a problem" If it was the pilot 'chasing' a 5kt speed loss at 70ft......................... maybe we also have a problem.

Landed back Tuesday evening. Reports that the a/c is still 'in maintenance' tonight.

Apparently what happened was that during the approach the count down went :
100 feet
90 feet
80 feet
70 feet
60 feet .... but to you my boy ..... 30
Hence the prang.

Tonight’s BA59 LHR-CPT is being operated by a B777-300, first time that I’ve seen one on this route, not good for staff travel as it’s got 40 less seats than the normal 747-400

Ibbie wrote: ↑

Sat May 30, 2020 7:10 am

https://simpleflying.com/british-airway ... m=facebook

I’ve seen this from other sources and without going through the whole list, for me it falls apart at the first line as BA don’t have two A318’s, they sold one to Titan a couple of years ago.

they sold one to Titan a couple of years ago.

I'm pretty sure it's on lease, or was originally from 2017, with an option to purchase after two years. The other is stored at CDG.

Was subject to a new mortgage on 27 May 2020.

Capetonian wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:39 pm

Apparently what happened was that during the approach the count down went :

60 feet .... but to you my boy ..... 30

But to you my boy, Chaim, who said that uncle Solly would never acknowledge you in his will, I have a note here from Solly to you, and it says...


"Hello Chaim.."