Magic - GB is the future for the national carrier and you are the past. GB are a fantastic company whose only failing is to be beholden to BA. Command courses are not 'two a penny' - you wait on the seniority list for like them just like you lot. The reason that command courses are appearing at GB and not BA is that GB is expanding and BA is not. All you had to do was take a job offer from GB (if you could get one!) instead of the one BA gave you and wait your turn. Instead of whining about GB, BA pilots should wake up to the harsh reality that it is only the likes of GB that have any possible chance against the Orange Order. GB are quietly and efficiently getting on with their fight for market share in a vicious marketplace while the BA dinosaurs worry about the range of choice on the cheeseboard!
The tragedy is that many BA pilots would sooner see a route go to easyJet than GB. Well you will get your wish because next time you sit at A3, have a look at the colour of the aircraft beside you. The chances are it will be orange and it will be going to one of your destinations! Wait another year or so and you will not have to worry because the same orange aircraft will still be going to your destination but you will have pulled off the route because you could no longer compete. Now there is a franchise that could have fought on equal terms with easyJet - ah yes it is called GB Airways!