No consolation but its the same all the way down the food-chain. All airlines are trying to do more with less relying when push comes to shove on the pilots 'professionalism' to save the day. They don't employ enough, they train them too late when a problem becomes apparent and then when they scrape through another year, the managers take their bonus payments and pat themselves on the back. My company is small fry compared to BA but we do employ 350 pilots operating a mixed Boeing/Airbus fleet and industrial relations are very fragile as a second round of pay negotiations is about to be turned down or so rumour has it !