par SEVRIEN Lun 23 Nov 2009, 05:09
Bonjour, chers tous ! Certains feraient mieux d'écouter ce que dit le Management de BA, plutôt que de privilégier les écrits & 'rapports' des media français, qui passent leur temps à chercher à établir des parallèles entre AF et BA (et Iberia). --------------------
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[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]Prospect of BA and Qantas link-up resurfaces By Pilita Clark in London
Published & Last updated: November 23 2009 00:42
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[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] opens the way for BA to reconsider a tie-up with
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BA ditched talks with the Australian national carrier last year after the sides failed to agree terms.
But Mr Walsh said in an interview that the structure of the BA/Iberia deal, in which the two airlines keep their brands and home bases, was a template for tie-ups with other airlines and Qantas was a candidate.
Mieux vaut lire ceci, que de privilégier la soupe des Syndcats, servie par certains media ! Il n'y a pas qu'un son de cloche ! Et ces media, et certains forumistes "d'ailleurs" ne tiennent même pas compte dzs impacts potentiels (allant dans plusieurs sens à la fois ! ) des récentes décisons chez Iberia, sur les personnels de BA !
“You could look again there,” he said, adding that there were no plans to do so at present and last year’s “quite negative” Australian political reaction to the BA/Qantas talks would be a “major hurdle”.
Mr Walsh, who says future deals are more likely in Europe, said: “The media reaction was much more negative than I had expected. Having spent time and effort debating the issue first time round, you’d want to be pretty sure that those hurdles were not going to be insurmountable.”
BA is facing the prospect of a holiday season strike. The Unite union is holding a ballot on industrial action over moves to cut the number of crew on some long-haul flights and could legally strike from December 21 if its members vote yes.
Mr Walsh is in no mood for a settlement like the one made when flight attendants were last about to strike. The latest dispute was “very, very different” from that of January 2007, when an 11th-hour compromise avert­ed a walk-out. That dispute was over grievances, including sick pay and onboard staffing levels.
Pas d'amalgame ! Chez BA, on n'est pas dan le pays des rois de l'amalgame ! Mr Walsh said that the new changes were vital to the future of BA, now facing its second consecutive year of losses.
“In 2007 I saw things that I wasn’t happy with,” Mr Walsh said. “I saw there was some merit in the arguments that were being made.” But no one should “look for parallels” this time around, he said.
“I implemented these changes because I believed it was the right thing for the business to do, I believed it was the responsible thing for management to do in the circumstances and I am absolutely committed to seeing them through.”
A bon entendeur.... !