I think the point is that if you can spare 500 managers and still operate to the same standard- which BA will- you plainly had at least 500 "managers" that had no bloody business at all being there in the first place.
Or it could be that coming towards the end of T5 moves, outsourcing of many ground handling departments, regional bases, Engineering departments etc.. means less managers are needed.
Perhaps some on here really are unaware of what is really going on at BA.
Just because staff are surplus now when times are hard doesn't mean they weren't valuable assets that helped us survive and make massive profits in the past.
Manager or non-manager there is good and bad in all of them. I just hope the ones who are going are not the ones we really need to stay