I think it is an over imaginative interpretation of the tea leaves left in a cup of tea! Nevertheless it is interesting in my career with a Very Large British Airline, I can recall in the last 15 years being lectured twice by other carrier pilots on how sad and how far the VLBA had fallen, how crap the pay was and how poor the service was. Once by a very arrogant old Danish SAS Captain in CPH and once by a Swissair man. At the time one agrees and zips one's lip, now I would so like to contact them with 'and you were saying?'