The British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) have had an open letter published in today’s Financial Times, expressing their concern that the T5 problems at Heathrow are making a ‘laughing stock’ of BA.
Jim McAuslan, Balpa’s general secretary wrote: “It is with great sorrow and acute embarrassment that BA pilots have witnessed the unhappy shambles that the opening of T5 has become, Banks, institutional investors and analysts need to wake up to the fact that there is something very wrong at the heart of this company that is making our once great brand a laughing stock.The airline can and should make Britain proud but a fundamental change of attitude is required from the very highest levels of BA management.”
The letter was aimed at City institutions as well as the government, with McAuslan calling on them to “act on how [BA] is ‘led’”. Balpa represents 3,000 BA pilots.
BA Chief Executive Willie Nash has refused to resign over the T5 problems, which have so far cost the Airline £16million in two weeks. A spokesman for BA reported, “Willie Walsh has said that he is not going to resign and he’s determined to resolve the problems associated with the initial move to T5.”
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