Regardless,
The VA Narrow Body EBA 2021 is a stand-alone agreement that that cannot be influenced by another agreement(VARA or otherwise) unless it expressly states that within that agreement- which it does not.
The EBA outlines clearly how Commands will be allocated.
It is far more favorable for Bain to have a single AOC/Type and hold a gun to the head of the VARA pilots at the next negotiations after they have been allowed to be integrated by the current EBA parties/pilots (or their representatives).
Put simply, if it was fiscally more advantageous for Bain to expand the fleet via VARA, then they could have more easily done so.
Again - I’m unaffected by this, just highlighting the very obvious intent of Management and the elementary facets relating to this particular circumstance.