"The Command Training brings out so-called assertiveness skills, and heigh ho, let's bang the drum about our opinions on those long sectors when here's not much to do but whinge about pay, allowances, rosters and of course, the Management!"
As eny fule will no, you really can't expect to go from a very well used terminal to a brand new and UNTRIED terminal in one big move and hope that all will run according to plan, very foolish and you don't have to be a pilot to spot that one Brain.
There are ground handling experts out there so please, would it not have been better to start off by moving, say, twenty flights a day for a few days and gradually increasing the number until you hit a log jam and then give yourself an opportunity to identify the problems? Very easy to be wise after the event but to even imagine that BA could pull off such a huge move as they tried, in one hit, without significant problems is naive in the extreme.
I wonder if the two lads that got sacked expressed reservations about the one-big-hit-move or if they really thought it could be done?