I'm not sure wether the original poster works for the Mirror and is advertising his story, or works for the Ch 4 and is hyping Dispatches...
Company asks for some grades to apply for voluntary redundancy, 450 apply...big deal... "rocked", I don't think so.
"Panicking", well a BA Board member might well be but not over the future of BA, more likely over their position on the Board.
I think everyone in aviation related jobs should be rightly concerned about the future, but BA isn't "rocked" and it sure as heck isn't "panicking".