I think that it is important for all of us that The BA pilot workforce stick this one out. You just have to look at what has happened in Aus with the birth of Jet Star. It would seem that any career progression for Fos in Qantas is all but over. Same happened in the US with American Eagle. If the Openskies pilots are not on the BA seniority list then in the future Ba can expand through Openskies paying half the wages they pay mainline pilots and stopping any expansion at BA mainline. With BA being the best payed pilots in the Uk it is a benchmark for the rest of us to aim for in our negotiations with our companies various. The lower the benckmark the lower the outcome of any negotiations.
We all need to get behind the BA pilots and hope that they win this one. They have already bhad to give up a lot of their pension rights. As has been sated before BA are making a lot of money at the moment, and it seems to be their staff who are paying for it.