People in glass gin palaces shouldn't throw stones.
Let BALPA put its' own house in order, spend less on dining, travel and fine wines, guarantee that pilots will have legal protection, regardless of whether BALPA think they have a case or not, with their own choice of legal team, cut the General Secretary's package to the same as a Ryanair Captain ( £50K fair Vexed?) and then they might have a chink of an opportunity to put a case to the pilots.