Koi,
I'm not sure what point you think I have hit, but you misunderstand me. I was outlining the reasons for the dispute, a dispute I am very confident BALPA will win, and without bankrupting BA.
You appear to belong to the economically semi-literate union-haters who love to quote "the market". Industrial disputes are not always conflicts between Marxist trade unions and brave, clear-sighted, free-market management, which the former are doomed to lose. Looking at recent European pilot strikes, who won at Aer Lingus? At Lufthansa? Has the sky fallen in at those companies?