How exactly has BA been rocked by this????? If you care to remember about one month ago BA asked 1500 managers to take voluntary severance packages or face compulsary redundancies. It was announced yesterday internally that 500 managers had volunteered and after a review ALL applications for voluntary redundancy were execpted, the said managers will be leaving the company at the end of the year. I fail to see how this can be construed as you are making out that 500 managers resigned out of the 'blue'.
And as for that tw*t Salmond up there in Scotland, how does the closure of a GLA base consitute a pull out from Scotland, all of the flights remain unchanged, besides it has been a long time since BA was a national airline, it is now a private company who can fly to and from where it so wishes. On the other hand though with the government nationalising every other private business under the sun at the moment perhaps the good old days of a huge loss making national airline that has aircraft based in every regional centre is not far away again, perhaps a model something like Alitalia
