To all British Airways pensioners and retired staff worldwide

BA be fair

Staff Travel Campaign Working Group

FINAL UPDATE AND CLOSURE - JUNE 7th 2010

This is the last posting on this site or subject by the Staff Travel Campaign Working Group. It is to provide supporters of and contributors to the campaign with a final accounting of the fund which was formally wound up last year.

You will recall that although ABAP was anxious to get its hands on the money contributed to the Fund, offering to "save us the trouble" of opening separate Bank accounts. However, when it came time to repay those who'd been especially generous, they found they had no-one who could do the work.

Thus it fell to me (as the only active member in the UK) to do the work - first explaining why contributors owed a refund would be receiving a cheque drawn on my personal account.

Those who'd contributed in excess of £25 were due a refund and were given the choice of receiving a cheque, passing the refund to ABAP or having the STCWG pass the refund to Cancer Research. Significantly the vast majority who declined to receive a personal refund chose to support Cancer Research - perhaps a verdict on ABAP's lacklustre support for the STCWG from the outset.

Only one item in the spreadsheets requires explanation and that is lines 129 and 130 on the Refund Expenses spreadsheet. The share of email and broadband costs the STCWG accounted for couldn't be scientifically apportioned so the total email account was charged in full whilst the whole of the broadband account was borne by me personally.

Finally, the delay in publishing these documents is due solely to my health and in that respect may I note my sincere gratitude for all the messages of support and good health I have received.

Philip Howells, for the STCWG

To view the original site please click on Campaign Origins

To view the fund's expenses please click on Expenses

To view the final disposition of funds please click on Disposition