You can argue from your corners until you're blue in the face - in the meantime the answer is obvious to all but the logically handicapped.
Who is making a profit? Who is ordering scores of aeroplanes? Who is opening new routes? Who is employing more pilots?
The BA way of doing things, (including its pilots' union Spanish practices), speaks very loudly for itself.
[ 26 January 2002: Message edited by: Sir Kitt Braker ]</p>