Exactly Turin, BA has the cash in the bank to pay the deficit , but it chooses not to...
BA is doing very well, no doubt they'll announce they've bought a load of triples so they don't have the fnds available anymore.
The bottom line is that BA are going back on a promise here, an agreement to pay X upon retirement at 55, which was the reason many signed in the first place, if the terms that made you sign a contract to buy a car or whatever were liable to such changes and were able to be changed so readily then you'd never sign, so why should this be any different?
BA also have a finite time to sort this out, they want the staff to agree to these new lesser terms, otherwise the Pension Ombudsman gets involved and BA could be forced to pay back the pension deficit.
You guys stick to your guns and make them pay you what they originally promised!