I have a tiny arguement on the pen-pushing side.
The report on Capt Pprunes comments notes a fall in profits of perhaps £100 million. Simply slimming down management or cutting pilots salaries will only save a few million here. Really for BA to improve each depart from Pen pushers to ground ops needs an improvement. For those of you in there you know best where this can come from, I believe BA is a reasonably slim airline, take a peek at the comparisons of economics with a similar airlines such as Lufthansa and KLM, you'll know pretty quick then how slim BA is. LH are reviewing their profits at the moment despite having probably one of the best MD's on the planet.
Finally, when is BA going to take over EI? NOw there's a place you could do some serious sliming down of heads!
Regards,
FF