The point in issue HS is that it would have made absolutely no difference whatsoever to the living standards of existing BA pilots to have leant their support through Balpa in achieving BACX CCs aspiration to have given BACX pilots access to Mainline at the bottom of BAs seniority list thereby affording a lifeline to those that were otherwise made redundant or had to seek jobs with other airlines than within BA....whilst BA continued to recruit outside.
Thre was nothing magnanimous about the RJ arrangment. It was devised purely and simply to serve the interests of Mainline pilots and had so many strings attached to it that it was irrelevant to the majority of existing BACX pilots.
Coming back to Little Princes post, what grates with many of us is the fact that all of a sudden the "BA family " has become relevant when previously you have not given a tuppeny damn about your relatives.