Re: BA pilots 'prepared to strike'
The old scheme, APS part 6, "enjoyed" an employers contrubutions holiday for 15 years. Even then it was so massively in surplus that BA had their beady eyes on in it 2000 to prop up NAPS. That proposal was demolished but not until after huge legal costs paid out from the scheme. NAPS , the "new" scheme started in 1984 has never had a holiday.
I also believe that Rod Eddington & John Rishton had pensions which accrued at twice the rate of NAPS.