Fred,
Believe it or not, even the former Brymon MP scheme (now the BACX scheme) has higher contribution rates than the new BA MP scheme and they are based on full salary too.
Maybe these people heading for Virgin are hearing just how much some of our very long serving senior trainers wil be retiring on. I would guess at between 5 and 10% of pod's likely pot and considerably less than than a GG workers salary.
Start on flying insructor salary, finish on flying instructor salary.
At least theres a chance of a senior citizen job at B+Q.