GSS, a blatant breach of the BA scope agreement
Nonsense - how about you actually read scope HS?
As you cant be bothered it says that mainline may 'bid aspirationally' onto ACMI freighter commands (and freight goes to mainline when >6 a/c) - NOT that ACMI freighters would be prohibited.
The problem was that the whole thing wasn't going to work unless BALPA let GSS recruit lots of FOs and let it get running for a year or two,
before dropping the bombshell on the GSS FOs that their commands were to be given to BA FOs. Just to rub it in, nothing (such as staff travel or seniority list access) was offered as recompense - GSS was BA territory when it came to taking commands there, but not BA territory when it came to anything else.
As for being spineless, seeing as BALPA was orchestrating the whole thing, who were we supposed to turn to? - IPA - yeah, right!
Anyway, I think we digress