British Airways avoids compulsory cabin crew redundancies at Heathrow and City
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British Airways has confirmed to staff that no cabin crew were made redundant in the recent restructuring.
(EDIT: It seems that this claim may only relate to Heathrow and London City and not Gatwick, which does appear to have some compulsory redundancies.)
This is, of course, not as rosy as it sounds. Many legacy cabin crew members, hired before the introduction of lower paid Mixed Fleet almost a decade ago, were facing substantial pay cuts if they remained. These crew members are highly likely to have taken voluntary redundancy rather than remain.
Some crew members also chose to switch to part time work. In addition, given that Mixed Fleet staff at British Airways tend not to see their job as one for life, there will have been a number who had been planning to leave and were spurred on by the carrot of a cheque.
With ticket and sales and flight schedules for the Autumn running well below projections, however, there is likely to be another round of job losses to come.
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