Damn! i thought i had put my dear friend Tandem on my block list !
I hear what you are saying tandem and your humour is noted. The currently fictional "KLM Lite" could well happen, but please read my post again, i think what is happening now is worse than the openskies KLM lite senario. KLM and AF are leasing out our jobs and futures to America this is not good at all.
As i have said in previous threads I support BA pilots in their struggle but you have to be careful here, I think the ban on recruitment to OS is probably counter productive, it would be very easy for BA to retrench this project to a country outside of europe and use non european crews to man it (see what KLM / AF are doing right now!
). Then it would be impossible for BALPA to take an industrial action case out against a non EU company operating outside of the UK.
A very difficult situation to which i obviously do not have all the answers.