At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter what BA decide, or what their costs are.
Simple fact is, we now have 600 co-pilots who are suddenly heavily incentivised to take a command to protect their pensions. It just takes one ‘black swan’ event to bring the whole industry crashing. Any of those 600 NOT bidding for every available BA command, as soon as possible, are simply gambling that they can outsmart the cyclical nature of this industry!
Plenty of events in my time in the industry have seen the P&P system grinding to a halt! It’s very stupid to ever presume the status quo will prevail.
Bon chance!