Sorry Shaman but its still a load of garbage. BMed work is 'long' long haul. Its further to Ethiopia than it is to Nigeria or the Middle East. BMed is not a short haul operation in any sense. Even their shortest routes match the length of some of our long haul routes. Which leads nicely to your next suggestion that short haul work for BA, BACX, GB and BMed is to be combined. Well as I just explained, BMed aren't short haul in any sense. Furthermore, like BMed, GB have a legally binding contract which BA cannot overturn in order to combine the businesses. GB have made it quite clear they wish to carry on as a franchise and do not wish to be subsumed into BA and there's nothing BA can do about that other than to buy them out of their contract at huge expense. Quite how do you define 'combining' the work when what you're actually suggesting is splitting the work between three seperate and distinct compannies. The plan actually contradicts itself!
***At the moment P1s cannot be displaced but it will be a requirement as pasrt of the cost savings demanded of the pilots
There will be a transition period whilst BMed GB and BACX set up their processes to enable them to integrate the soon to be ex BA a/c and the crews who will be transferred with them. Lots of BA pilots wish to keep their jobs and will be quite happy with the plans.
Now these two points represent nothing less than wholesale, unnegotiated, massive changes to each pilots contract of employment. Notwithstanding the fact that BA cannot implement this without the agreement of individual contract holders, do you for one moment believe that BA pilots would vote for a scheme which robs LH pilots of their commands, forces senior SH Captains to go to LH against their wishes then divides the entire shorthaul operation (737,757,767,Airbus) into three seperate companies (BACX, GB and BMed) with differing pay and conditions? Dream on. No BA pilot would be happy with those plans. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas. Even if this whole thread wasn't ludicrous enough, what you fail to point out is that this grandiose scheme wouldn't actually do anything to reduce the overheads which are the true problem within BA. It still leaves all the Waterworld dead wood, the militant loaders and drivers, and the cabin crew (who sure as hell won't agree to that), but just loads an extra level of administration and management into the smaller companies. I suggest if you want sensible plans you'd more success writing the grafitti on the back of the bog doors in Compass centre.