My apologies. The information I received was from a flight crew friend who had received an internal email. Between us we misconstrued that all cancellations will be short-haul to all short-haul will be cancelled. In my defence I have not seen the original document, in his, he is just fed up of the combination of inept BA management of staff and the ever shifting sands of government policy. Considering the chaos that is prevalent, for a split second the scenario seemed perfectly likely.