Looking at the other side of the coin for a second....sacrilege I know.
I have to say that BA are between a rock and a hard place.
Lets say OS gets off the ground with all the pilots on the MSL.
There comes a point where they can neither get new recruits (far-fetched perhaps?), nor does anyone from Mainline wish to fly their a/c....for obvious reasons. (I presume initial recruits will be "OS frozen" for a certain period?)
Will they be able to compel Mainline pilots to fly the a/c?
Yes? No? Not on OS T&C's? On their original T&C's?
So what does this mean for the cost-base of OS?
Fairly obvious why they don't want inclusion on the MSL surely?
Am I missing something?