The thing is meal allowances are basically our salary in disguise. What you lot seem to fail to understand is that without meal allowances the cabin crew would take home around £10k. When we are downroute we don't spend our entire meal allowance, if we did we'd have no money in our pockets back home. Meal allowances are not simply to pay for meals. Without them NO ONE on the new contract could afford to work for BA.
There is no way there will be any change in the way things are done. Meal allowances are here to stay and if BA try to force a new system they will be left with no airline at all.
I agree there are a lot of expensive old contract crew out there who get paid a massive salary, but there are also a lot of post-1997 crew who do not. Anyone who joined after 1997 takes home a little above the average salary for cabin crew.