A takeover of any company has winners and losers, also it can be a very unsettling experience for all concerned.
The mudslinging between parties here is not going to achieve anything other than bitterness.
BACX is a seperate company, its merger between bral and brymon was not a happy one from the start, there were many bases different a/c types salary scales, etc etc.
When BA made a corperate decision right or wrong to centre its mainline operation at heathrow it disrupted a great many pilots lives, the regional operation was to be operated by a different company (BACX) and so an attempt was made to give some people their lives back by joining this company on secondment.
The takover of CityFlyer express was very very different. It was a stable company operating from a london mainline base (its only base) and it did make sense to integate the operation within BA.
The pilots at CityFlyer did fall on their feet at BA but however it was not without problems. Some pilots did not reach required standards when being re-trained, those over the age of 55 had other issues, others were bitter over command prospects because of being placed on the bottom of the seniority list.
If you were to intigrate BACX into mainline BA it would create a far worse situation for company and pilots (both sides). BA would be faced with the a multi basing policy which is costly on mainline scales. The BACX pilots may not get any further commands because they would be at the bottom of the list and victims of a seniority system. Also the training issues that happened with Cityflyer may happen again which would be in nobodys interest.
The costs and disruption to mainline could be huge.
Now by keeping BACX as a seperate regional airline its problems are distanced from the main core business. People must realise it is NOT BA.
If you wish to join BA then i suggest you apply and go through the selection. If you wish to stay in the regions and get an earlier command then stay with BACX.
The two groups need to talk more and understand each other more. BA branding at BACX does give it credibility with the traveling public, so on the back of this a good company with its own career structure can be built.
All this bitterness is only distructive.
Bluepilot