BALPA ar a disgrace.
Legal Protection Insurance is available independently at a fraction of the cost of BALPA.
In addition, your right to representation is decided professionally, not upon a whim of some BALPA bod.
Free legal advice as well. I used it and it helped me win a fight for £ thousands.
In addition, the Legal Protection guys seem keen to show they're better than BALPA. One of the guys at work was victimised by management and they pulled out all the stops.
BALPA don't care about anyone but the BA workforce. The BA subscriptions would keep BALPA in luxury without any other subscribers. BA management are about the level BALPA can cope with. Give them a bully-boy management and BALPA are hopeless.