LGW OneFleet is still a very, very, very long way off. Formal negotiations haven't even started yet and this proposal - and that's all it is, a proposal that Joy Hordern would like to discuss - was tabled almost exactly one year ago.
Granted, it or something similar, will need to happen at some point in order for LGW to start making money. As for the union situation: Cabin Crew 89 have been very quiet about this proposal but no doubt, being BA's little drone, it will roll over and accept ANYTHING that the company offers (but who knows? By the time that these negotiations begin/finish Cabin Crew 89 might have been absorbed into BASSA through the T&GWU/Amicus merger. That's how long things take in this company). BASSA on the other hand is not opposed to OneFleet but is quite rightly very wary of anything that this company proposes. And as a responsible union it will examine the impacts, both positive and negative, long and short-term, on our flying community as a WHOLE in both LHR and LGW. As for BASSA 'caving-in' - I think not.
Now, as for the man who is about to take over the helms of 'Skippy', I think that, yes, he will come to the crew community for cost-cutting wins (i.e. slightly higher productivity with regards to working; little agreement changes re: Terminal 5; mixed flying at LHR etc) BUT nowhere near as much as what people think/would like to think. The very same rumours were doing the rounds just before 'Skippy' took over with regards to the changes that he implemented at Ansett and Cathay Pacific. And lets face it: if they hadn't attempted to take MAJOR chunks of cost out of the crew community under 'Future Size and Shape' I seriously doubt that they will be trying to pull anything seriously major now nor at any point in the foreseeable future. And before people start to point-out what went on at Aer Lingus and the changes that Walsh implemented there: the two airlines are VERY different and what applies to one certainly does not apply to the other - you simply can't compare the two. Now, if I was one of the many, many, many arbritary middle-managers at Waterside I would be quaking in my boots. I do truly believe that this is the area where he will (and quite rightly SHOULD) focus his cost-cutting drive on. I think that he will also try it on with the ground and terminal staff. I think that major change is upon them over the next few years with the up-coming move to Terminal 5 and all the different operating procedures that this will entail (i.e. highly automated, no need for legions of ground staff etc). Also, MTS changes (virtual disbandment?) and other ground staff groups being targeted.