BA runs ‘ghost flights’ to train strike breaking cabin crew
28.02.10
British Airways is training strike-breaking cabin crew on 'ghost flights', with their colleagues standing in for passengers, the Telegraph reports. Special trips from Heathrow to Cardiff and Glasgow are being used to allow replacement crews to practice in the air.
Routine trips to BA's Cardiff and Glasgow engineering bases for aircraft maintenance are doubling up as training flights, but the airline is also running journeys solely for training purposes, the newspaper reports. BA said: ‘It is an opportunity for the volunteer crew to experience a flight and how to act as a team.’
Cabin crew are normally trained on scheduled services with paying passengers but, given the limited time available, the strike breaking crews are having to make do with role-playing colleagues. Friends of the Earth described BA's decision to put on the ghost flights as shocking.
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