Its no use waiting until Open Skies is flying with its own MSL, because then it will be too late to do anything about it
I disagree. In view of the Company's written assurances, if OS begins to affect mainline T&C's then we have an unimpeachable reason for industrial action - the Company will be clearly in the "wrong" as they have reneged on their promises.
Plenty of people will say there is precedent for the Company doing this - I would agree, but then query why there has been no precedent for IA by the BACC in the wake of these broken agreements?
Why now, and why this issue? We let BA have the compromise on NAPS, even though it was a compromise. Likewise the Work Coverage agreement. Why is there no room for compromise in this? It makes us look like hidebound reactionaries, protectionist and paranoid, happy to damage the company to secure an agreement which will be commercially more damaging in the future.
Not me, thanks.