Thank you VR, you may well be right. The fact remains though that the BACC will by now have made it its business. I repeat my point that BALPA should now take up the cudgels on behalf of all its members and ensure that everyone of them should have an equal opportunity to be considered in such a scheme should they so wish. It may be the preoccupation of BA pilots that by doing so they would retain their BA seniority. I suspect that it would be the preoccupation of many other pilots that they retain the chance of retaining a flying career, or failing that any career in aviation at all....