Striking BA captains lose an average of £21k each in pay & benefits

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EXCLUSIVE: Striking British Airways captains have lost an average of £21k each in pay and other benefits

, was deducted £3,320.47 for ‘23.83 bidline hours which was the credit value for the trip impacted by the industrial action’.Any new trip within the next five days will only be paid at a ‘single rate’ rather than a ‘premium’ fee – costing captains, depending on their salary, an approximate £1,000.

Pilots lose unlimited 10 per cent ‘standby’ flights for friends and family, costing them an approximate £1,000 a year, or £3,000 total. And flightdeck crew will no longer be able to use ‘staff travel’ flights to commute to work from November 1 this year.dodging paying tax to the UK governmentSome BA pilots live as far afield as Australia, paying peanuts via ‘staff travel’ concessions to fly to Heathrow to begin duties in the cockpit travelling across the globe.

 

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One of the reasons the pilot union used as an excuse for pay rises was for a share of the large profits. If the airline starts to lose money will they take a pay cut?

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