With ref Jumbo and Biddedout, I was told today that Eastern have already been sniffing around, allegedly for all the Dash 8 and most of the Emb 145s as well. I wouldn't have thought they would have had the money personally, but then if you recall, they were paid some 20 - 30 million quid to take our J41s, so anything is possible. (Remember too that it cost BA more to ground our ATPs than it would have done to continue running them - all a deliberate downsizing exercise). The downsizing prior to integration idea makes a lot of sense when you think about it, WW will probably want to hang onto anything which is guaranteed profit AND will work with a standard mainline a/c, like a babybus. Think LCY, and think what those routes will be worth as the Olympics gear up!!!! In the meantime, all the 'lossmaking' routes and bases are canned, one at a time, people slowly leave, the redundancy bill reduces and the costs reduce month on month.
Eventually, only some of the RJ and 146 guys are left, and don't forget they have already been offered mainline status once because of scope, so a very small integration may be possible. Personally though, I would still expect no integration, there's no benefit to BA, and let's face it, they don't do anything unless forced by a strike action or unless it makes kpi and profit.
What's all this about a day of protest then?