IF action were to take place and IF it was successful in gaining a higher percentage increase, bmi would find itself in a very difficult position with the rest of the non pilot workforce, in as much that pay awards in terms of percentage rises have generally been give to all across the board (for bmi mainline), and some unions may have provisos that if any other departments get a higher percentage award than they settled for, then they would also get the same percentage increase, after all when the company have given rises in the past they always say that they cannot give one section of the workforce a higher percentage than any other! It will be interesting to see how the management get themselves out of this one
