LONDON/PARIS, April 29 (Reuters) - British Airways is
planning a major overhaul of its cabin crew that will
"significantly reduce" their numbers, according to an internal
memo circulated on Wednesday, after parent IAG moved to
cut as many as 12,000 of the airline's 42,000 staff.
Senior long-haul flight attendants stand to lose out as the
carrier scraps its three existing cabin-crew organisations and
reassigns a smaller number of staff to a single lower-cost
entity, under plans outlined in the memo seen by Reuters.
"Our proposals aim to save as many jobs as possible and
secure a sustainable future," according to the note from an
in-flight customer experience executive that was later
circulated among representatives of BA's 16,500 cabin crew.
A BA spokeswoman declined to comment on the memo. Two union
sources told Reuters they were aware of its content.
(Reporting by Josephine Mason and Laurence Frost; Additional
reporting by Sarah Young in London; Editing by Edmund Blair)