BA Pilots to be Given Silver Exec Cards?

Sounds plausible in a cack handed BA way…..is there evidence to back this up? BA managers have long had such benefits….or at least since lounge access policies were changed to protect the vulnerable.
BA positioning flight crew already benefit from guaranteed club seat with high upgrade codes and have been known to exercise right to club at expense of downgrades and offloads. Access to lounge is merely the next logical step.

Surely staff tickets do not accrue airmiles and tier points.

Any employee earning a BAEC status card through revenue, should be encouraged, no problem with that – although I doubt many will be tempted to use whilst in uniform.

Juliancucumberbitch is obviously a very jealous BA staff member as he/she says ” ‘our’ regular passengers”. I doubt that he/she will ever aspire to the dizzy heights of Blue status,
let alone Silver!

But, I agree that it is wrong to award Silver status to employees, with wives and 5 kids who will tag along as well! It totally devalues the Exec Club and also fills the lounges. Where does it end?

The cabin crew who earned their Silvers/Golds during the industrial unrest were earned correctly. I am not sure where the pilots have an argument that they deserve this facility thru status in BA.

If the crew members earned the tier level with commercial tickets then they have the rights to use the lounge.

BA is very wise to advice this group NOT to flaunt their uniforms so as not to upset the frequent travellers.

This privilege was obtained through contribution to the strike and it is only for ONE year. Let them have the benefits!!!!

What are BA (Hotline) commercial tickets?

With all the past discussion of crew benefits along with the actions of Bazza and Shazza, I do find it slightly bizarre that their are complimentary staff silver cards in circulation for staff.

If a senior manager is flying on company business, may be, I can understand the logic of access to a lounge. Comping any other staff member with lounge access, along with family, seems a little generous, even by BA standards and as posters say, devalues the benefits of the card somewhat.

There was a discussion in the past about BAEC card holders having access to the lounge with ALL their family and whilst it was not accepted with glee, it was accepted that the rules are the rules.

If this story is true, I would be pretty annoyed if these comped cards do exist and are available to all family members of the staff concerned.

Once again, staff buying revenue tickets and earning BAEC, fantastic, credit to the product, but BAEC awards and membership based on staff travel……………………..I cant see anyone agreeing to that, except of course to the staff who benefit.

I am BA Cabin Crew and have a Gold Card.

I achieved the status as at least twice, usually thrice a month I commute to London from my home on the continent. I purchase standby tickets about 50% of the time and ‘hotline’ commercial tickets the other 50%. If I purchase Hotline tickets I buy Club Europe ones as there are often great fares and 120 tier points for each return journey.

I did not participate in the ‘summer of discontent’ last year as I am not a Unite/BASSA member. But I must say I would be quite peeved if Flight Crew were given Silver cards gratis.

But as StephenLondon says, the issuing of these is pure rumour at the moment. Someone heard from someone that heard from someone.

Ah that old chestnut ‘we all work on the same aircraft’ therefore we must all be equal.

Pilots hold a professional licence, which takes two years training to achieve. That licence is tested every 6 months and pilots have rigorous medical checks every year. Not to mention the responsibility every time they come to work.

All jobs are not equal. Just because someone works in a hospital it doesn’t make them a surgeon. If BA wants to offer certain groups perks, then that is their decision.