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The threat of taking away LHR slots won't work, if they took away slots BA would need less employees to fly them, so it would only cause more damage, and that taking away slots might not be possible anyway.
On the other hand, if BA are determined to hold on to every LHR slot, it gives some sort of indication of how many aircraft - or at least movements - BA intends to use going forward. BALPA report that this information has not been forthcoming so far. Without it BA’s proposals for the number of redundancies required mean nothing and draw little credibility.