Tandemrotor. You suggest that there may be a deferral of the Oct 2006 retirement legislation. Very unlikely. We signed up for this in the early 1990s. The completion date was 2002. When France and UK failed to meet that date, the other EU countries at the Berlin Summit gave us a final one-off exemption until Dec 2006 to comply. Failure to act by Dec2006 will now involve an automatic case at the European Court which can in theory mean unlimited fines. Individuals will also be able to sue the UK government for failure to act in accordance with EU law. EU law counts for more than BA Balpa ballots in this case.