Yes, I too read the letter in BA News, but at least (for once) there was a decent reply which actually made sense. trouble is, you never know whether it's tru or not. I can't really believe BA could not provide the capacity to do the checks, but engineering is not my specialist subject.
Money saving ideas, however, are one of my little hobies and it's quite relevant here. We don't need DBA, just like we didn't need Air Liberte. Both companies have lost us huge amounts of money in the past and DBA continues to do so. So here's an even better idea. Bin DBA. Simple really.
It's nothing personal with our German colleagues, just a matter of survival of the 'Mother' company and we can't do that as money is poured down other black holes (in addition to the toss R S at Waterworld).
And.....
Recover