BA cabin crew ‘paid twice as much as Virgin’
10.06.09
British Airways, which is reportedly set to make 2,000 cabin crew redundant, pays them twice as much as competitor Virgin Atlantic, Personnel Today reports. Data from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) revealed that while the average Virgin cabin crew salary was £14,400 per annum, BA paid its staff £29,900. BA's pilots earned on average £107,600 a year, while Virgin and easyJet pilots earned £89,500 and £71,400 respectively.
Unions began talks with the airline yesterday to urge it to use voluntary redundancy or staff turnover to reduce staff numbers, after it announced plans to cut around ten percent of its workforce - around 4000 staff. However, BA warned if its target of job losses is not reached, it would consider making compulsory redundancies.
BA has suggested a further 32 cost-cutting measures, including cutting holidays by two days to 34 and reducing allowances for overseas travel. Unite, which represents cabin crew, said they could tolerate the cost-cutting measures for cabin crew staff only on a temporary basis, and ruled out permanent changes to staff terms and conditions. The airline lost £401 million last year after a collapse in passenger numbers and is demanding cost reductions from all parts of its business.
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