JT, I suggest that BA pilots are being treated in a different way because media coverage suggests that only BA/BACC is devising a scheme to temporarily detach pilots to RAF service while retaining existing company seniority and having their existing jobs to return to when their detachments end. None of that is likely to be on offer to the pilots of other companies and such pilots would be applying on an individual basis and having to quit their present employment on the basis that it won't be available for much longer anyway. I don't suggest that such pilots could be dealt with by the proposed BA system but rather that BA pilots be dealt with in the same way as the pilots from any other airline, ie on an individual basis. When it is time to leave RAF service then all such pilots can apply to their previous employers or indeed others for a job. Let us hope that by then such employment is available again.