Just heard this from a friend. Can anyone confirm this? Maybe I just missed it earlier...

Thanks.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), August 09, 1999

Answers

No mention of this on their website.

Hey, Andy...any word?

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), August 09, 1999.

Several close friends of mine work for BA. The company is actually recruiting additional staff for the period from december to mid spring next year. I hardly think thats behaviour commensurate with a company planning to down-tools for the rollover.

More rumour I think.

Kind Regards

W

-- W0lv3r1n3 (W0lv3r1n3@yahoo.com), August 09, 1999.

W, just because they are hiring over the period you indicated doesn't necessarily mean they don't intend to ground some flights over the roll.

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), August 09, 1999.

If they are grounding planes over the rollover, wouldn't it be sensible to recruit PR/Customer support personnel to 'soothe the savage breast' ? Especially when we don't have ant travel insurance that will cover Y2K issues ? I am playing devils advocate here, but look at the generic Y2K situation. PR spin IS the remediation .....

-- Rob Somerville (merville@globalnet.co,uk), August 09, 1999.

Pwrhaps something to do with the following, posted on this forum July 1:

From the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_382000/382893.stm

Thursday, July 1, 1999 Published at 18:01 GMT 19:01 UK

UK pilots are refusing to fly over the New Year to any countries where air traffic control systems could be hit by the Millennium Bug.

"People will not have to worry about travelling from Britain to a country over the millennium because we ourselves will not fly to areas we may regard as unsafe," said Captain David Marshall, chairman of the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa).

The union, which has 7,000 members, is investigating aircraft, airports and control systems worldwide to ensure they are year 2000 compliant.

It has already given a clean bill of health to all Airbus and Boeing aircraft which make up the vast majority of passenger planes.

Pilots have recently expressed concern about the general level of air traffic control standards in parts of Africa and eastern Europe.

Balpa will publish its survey at the end of the month but does not want to name specific countries until it has evidence of potential problems.

"We are monitoring the situation very carefully and we will keep our members and the travelling public informed. We will ensure their safety," said Balpa general secretary Chris Darke.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), August 09, 1999.