Bumblebee,
I agree with what you say. However, where EOG is bleeding money in "all those other places", CFE had those places under control!
The point I am trying to make does not relate solely to crew T+C's (though I acknowledge my post did sound a bit that way). The point I was trying to make is that, regardless of where the cost problems were within EOG, the fact is BALPA and other pressures were pushing for a profitable CFE to be integrated into an organisation with serious cost-control problems, and without the proper management focus that a shorthaul operation at LGW requires to be successful.
I still believe that any pressures which pushed the integration in this direction (even discounting subsequent effects of September 11th) were foolhardy and shortsighted, and not conducive to producing a robust, profitable, 'BA' product at LGW.
In trim.