If the BA pilots fail and management wins then it will be the beginning of the end for everyone in civil aviation in the UK. Once the aiming point/benchmark gets lowered......
All pilots and especially BALPA should have turned to the Dft after the liquids security changes last year and said that there would be no aviation in the UK until a sensible set of rules were put in place. Instead we just kept the show on the road. Having spent almost 3 decades keeping the show on the road and going the extra mile my payment will be less of a pension for a shorter time. Anyone just starting is going to get completely scr@wed unless BALPA win this one.
You can sit and laugh from the sidelines but would you want to be a passenger on a BA a/c after the strike ballot result is announced whatever the result? That gives BA about 17 days to pass the olive branch. The next few months will be a dangerous time to fly - for everone.
Like its an anagram.