TBF to GS-ALPHA I saw several downturns in my multiple years at BA (first being the results of Iraq v Kuwait) and the company along with BALPA were pretty good at protecting those at the bottom of the MSL…..
Last time around (Covid) things didn’t go so well and some of the new joiners were let go in - there was a lot of debate about how that was done.
If there’s a major slump this time around I’d not like to speculate on how BA will handle it.