Apparently not. Even Mike Street said that B2Bs were not producing the savings they wanted. The question is whether the cost of a B2B payment, full UK allowances and a hotel room exceeds the cost of employing another crew member for three days. With a large number of new contract people going over to long haul and the company paying peanuts into BARPS I suspect its now cheaper to hire more people than to pay the B2B payment.