Much as I sympathise with all cabin crew who are to be made redundant, please do not have a go at flight deck for getting options for ballot. We have a strong union and 2/3rds of the company's pilots are members. For the privilege of having a company council negotiating with the company for us, we pay 1% of our salaries.
BA have a cabin crew union do they not? They also have the best pay rates around.
Why do cabin crew not join a union?
I am not saying it would have saved jobs but it may have meant it would all be dealt with in a much fairer way than what I see happening.
Also, pilots are also being made redundant and a number of captains are to be demoted to First Officer.