Well now, there’s a surprise.
As British Airways (BA) or as I prefer to call them Bloody Awful, proudly proclaim that the Unite strike over pay, conditions and job cuts will only affect around 60% of customers in the internal UK market, it has emerged that 90% of BA’s Scots flights will be hit.
According to the Herald: The carrier insisted that from Saturday through to next Monday the majority of its flights remained in its schedule but travellers to and from Scotland looked set to bear the brunt of the inconvenience.
Who would have thought it?Just 2 of the 46 scheduled flights between the two capitals will go ahead this weekend. Only 1 out of 36 between Glasgow and London, and 7 of 26 between Aberdeen and Heathrow will operate. So to brag, as Mr Walsh does, that the majority of his flights will be running is a little disingenuous, especially when his company is called
British Airways. Perhaps he should reconsider its name.
English Airways has a ring to it, don’t you think?
Willie Walsh, the charmless chief executive, and all round bad egg, has apologised, being careful to do what all people trained in communications always do
(I think they may forget that, by now about ¾ of the population has had this training and so see through it). He stressed that he is
“deeply sorry that our customers are the innocent victims of this cynical attack on their travel plans by the leaders of Unite”. So does that mean that he is not sorry for the fact that anyone unfortunate enough to have to, or stupid enough to choose to, fly with BA has been inconvenienced by the ma
nagement part of the complete failure that is British Airways.
I’m coming down on neither side. I’ve flown British Airways and they are, without a shadow of doubt, at least at tourist class, the worst airline I have ever flown. I have no idea what their service is like at Business Class, or First Class, although, in fairness, I have heard that it is much better, but at Tourist Class it is worse than the local bus service in Dundee, and that’s bloody awful.
Compared with other European companies, including such companies as
Tarom (Romania) it is just plain (no pun intended) bad. Compared with
Emirates or
Singapore Airlines, it is in a whole different world. It’s a, of course, a typical British attitude that the First Class/Business Class people should be very comfortable and the cattle class can be treated like
.... well, like cattle.
I’ve used them on Flights between Edinburgh and Paris and I can assure you that the service was awful, the staff rude and unpleasant and the food was inedible (a dry cheese sandwich and lemon cake, no choice! and a plastic beaker of washing up water masquerading as coffee).
Strikes are usually rough on everyone. The staff probably have some points and it’s even possibly that Walsh has some. The only light note in this one is watching Brown and Adonis (was there ever a more inappropriate name?) squirm as they chose between their business friendly personae with Walsh and the fact that Unite is their biggest donor... all a few weeks before an election!
My main gripe here is the fact that, once again Willie (as appropriate a name as Adonis is inappropriate) Walsh seems to have ignored Scotland in his calculations.
As I say, what a surprise!
Pictured: Images of BA (not like I've ever seen them), Emirates, my favoured airline, and Tarom, which is surprisingly good (and has lovely meals)! 
