Actually OA, I don't have a chip on my shoulder about BACX pilots as a whole. I've drunk enough beer with them in the bars of Glasgow and Birmingham to know there were some good eggs amongst them, I've flown with some of them at mainline and I think your assessment of there being good and bad in both companies is spot on. What I do have a beef about is a handful of ex-BACX types telling the world that the whole companys woes were exclusively the fault of the big, bad BACC, accusing the BAR pilots of 'stealing' commands at their own bases, falsely attributing any airborne stuff up to BA pilots (I recognise screw ups happen, it's the nature of the business, but trying to pin them all on the secondees riles) and generally implying that they would have conquered the world if only we'd fought a few battles for them. If they could knock that off then we could all go back to doing something more worthwhile with our time.
It's a crazy idea but how about we draw a line under things at that?