rzw30:
Were you working for BA in Lord King's time? If so then you might remember or be interested to know that 3 people in Laker Airways commited suicide when we were put out of business. One of them was a very young engineering apprentice which was particularly sad.
As a proportion of the BA workforce you have another 30 - 40 suicides to go before you can catch up pro-rata.
That is not a very nice prospect but I cannot see that this can be prevented for all of the departments in the world's favourite airline seem to love each other so much.