Koi - I was going to write a reasoned response but why bother, you are just a jerk, a jealous, BA pilot hating jerk. Watch - BALPA will win.
BA think they can win by turning pilots into hate figures within the company who have no authority and no self esteem - result, BA is a chaotic airline with no leadership and p*ss poor prospects. Lost bags anyone?
Now they think they can transpose this model using every Pavel and Ivan with a european license who is willing to chuck their health away on a roster that would kill an elephant in an airline that will be run by dictat and in which they will earn peanuts for slavery. Its laughable.
BALPA will win because, in an almost phyrric vistory, it will be demonstrated that Air France/KLM and Lufthansa will be the winners in the network carrier game. They dont seek to smash pilots as a professional group and have demonstrably better hubs, management and a willingness to grant a shred of dignity to and understanding of front line staff. By the time this becomes glaringly obvious, if it is'nt already, BA will be a collapsed twitching mess with banks wondering how the implosion happened and the usual cast of villains discussing how to flog the dead horse into one more spurt of life. Then along will come a management team with the glaringly obvious insight that airlines are ultimately a service business and, unless you are running a blue-painted cattle truck point to point with no attempt at service, then a service is delivered by people, empowered and treated as such.
By then, hopefully something will be left to salvage. But what of that to you, eh, Koi?
Nothing I'll wager. You'll just sit there and laugh smugly as a British employer self destructs and takes down the livelihoods of thousands of British workers with it. What fun a chat with you across the bar must be.
