British Airways lost 467 million Euro last budget year.  CEO Willie Walsh asks the BA staff to consider working for free for up to one month to help it survive. This is not a serious way to run a company. 

‘I am looking for every single part of the company to take part in some way in this cash-effective way of helping the company's survival plan,’ he said. ‘It really counts.’

The item was all over the news, in the UK as well as on the continent. To our surprise, most of the media took the proposal seriously. We don’t.  If British Airways has to ask their employees to work for free, it should  stop operating. Any company that asks people to work without  getting paid, should be out of business. People depend on their salaries to feed their children, to pay off the loans for their house and to buy clothes. If a company is in trouble, it should ask the real stakeholders to come to assistance: the shareholders and  the suppliers.

British Airways should ask their fuel suppliers to provide free kerosene. It should not ask their employees and their families to provide free labour.

By the way: Willie Walsh himself has promised to work for free during July.We  guess the man can afford it while still taking care of his family: he makes over 850.000 Euro a year. 

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