I well remember when Britannia suddenly decided to get rid of their 737-200's and replace with about half the number of 757's resulting in having about 200 too many Pilots around 1993/4 and Roger Burnell ( Accountant) wanted to make most of the Luton crews redundant but as there were a lot of senior people there he had to be told that LIFO applied. He did not understand that idea. Eventually with a good early retirement package they avoided compulsory redundancies as the market elsewhere was good.
God help those if HR butt in and takeover and decide who has to go assuming Pilot redundancy is back on the agenda which no doubt it will be in time.
Britannia even put on a meeting chaired by Nick Ross to explain the new strategy What they did not say was that BAL was being lined up for sale with Thomson. Since TUI took over it seems to me from the outside that they have been losing their way and not sure what and where the market is headed.