The fat cat British Airways boss axing up to 12,000 workers has trousered more than £30million since 2011. Willie Walsh, chief executive of BA owner International Airlines Group, is set to retire in September - a month before his 59th birthday.
And he can relax in comfort having been handed another £213,000 cash last year to put towards his pension, and £1.8million since 2011.
Yet for BA workers facing the chop, the future is looking far more precarious. Not only do they face chop, BA is also proposing to give them statutory redundancy pay, claiming anything more would be “prohibitively expensive” However, IAG admitted last week it was sitting on £8.3billion of cash reserves.