It certainly is a win-win situation. A win for Willie Walsh and a win for Simon Talling-Smith. There is nothing on the table that wasn't there a month ago. A review of EG300 was already scheduled. The pension offer was the one the pilots negotiated. The pay rise has been self funded by removal of a purser and not backdating any rises to October 2006 as was due. Respect? This whole tawdry affair has made the crew the laughing stock of the airline. They have been marched up the hill by their reps, pilloried in the press as lazy, militant, greedy malingerers and at the end they've all been marched back down again with nothing new except a bus service at the weekend for commuters.
Some victory.