I can't excuse the behaviour of BALPA during GO, CityFlier etc, but what I can say is that Chris Darke, the general secretary at the time, was summarily dumped, and replaced by Jim McAuslan, a man in a different galaxy when it comes to comparisons. The stalking horse candidate was a BA Captain who put his money where his mouth was when the demand for change became a clamour.
Secondly, the Chairman of the BACC at the time left BALPA to take up a management post - in charge of baggage as it happens. What followed was a rout, with a new BACC of a completely different agenda.
If BALPA could have been accused of a prochial view in the past, the current BACC has a far broader horizon, and a MUCH more commercially aware constituent. I suggest that if we had this BACC then, things would have turned out very differently indeed.