Open Skies is a real threat to all BA crew. Say in a few months time this goes ahead, who's to say in a years time BA Management turn around and say.."ooh we have 3 daily flights to HKG, instead of crewing them LHR-HKG-LHR, how about using HKG crew and routing it HKG-LHR-HKG" pay local HKG rates to all crew, and what a fantastic saving" . And yet another management bonus, which incidentely are achieved differently to both flight and cabin crew.
Few months after that, JNB/CPT/SIN/WAW based crew all operating BA flights into and out of the UK but on local rates of pay. The list is endless, and if BA get their way there will be no stopping them, hence we should all be supporting BALPA both flight and cabin crew