Most ammusing, reading this thread. I'm sure that all you BA jocks hanker back to the old pre-privatisation days when the company existed for the benefit of its employees and stuff the passengers. You may recall that the airline then was losing stupendous amounts of money, but still lavished enormous annual payrises and perks on its own people. I recall that the airline actually ran up a debt of over a thousand million pounds! All written off in the end of course, all more tax payers money down the drain.
It's all about hard commercial reality now guys! Don't kill the old Golden Goose!