212 man,
Yes, I'm certain he was being posted to Nigeria. He refused that and the company then offered him the posting to the Far East, so it would look as if they were being more reasonable. The only thing I now forget was if the reason he gave was because of his dog or because he was going on a sailing holiday at that time (he was ex- merchant navy as well as ex- RN). It was all really to do with buiklding upm to the confrontation with Bristow and
PR was the fall guy because he was the most vocal of those espousing the BALPA cause, having been a member since his time in BAH. The ironic thing was that although he was staunchly BALPA, he wasn't nearly as vociferous as a lot of the pilots who later decided they wanted to join. I think the other thing about those days is that the majority of the pilots in Aberdeen in those days were fairly recently ex-military (either UK, USA or Australian) and still had the anti-union bias that military men of the day had. The situation today is very different.