Well 411A it seems that you belong in a different era. No doubt you could be replaced by a cheaper East European.
Quite likely not, an there are not many L10 current Captains around anymore, and certainly no one is training any.
Besides, management stays, like it or not.
Now, as to your...
...LAKER, PAN AM, EASTERN, BRANIFF, SWISSAIR.
Laker.
Strange you should mention them.
They had the very best management one could hope for, good employee morale, but were undone by collusion of the likes of BA, TWA, Pan Am versus McD Douglas.
Sir Freddie proved it in court, and collected a trunk load of cash from the offending airlines.
Eastern Air Lines.
Gross mis-calculation by the IAM (this would be the mechanics union for those that don't know), nothing to do with EAL management.
The airline simply folded up when the IAM did not accept the terms offered.
Braniff.
Nothing to do with airline management there, either.
Predatory pricing by AA did 'em in....twice.
What we have is an airline (BA, in this case) that needs to trim its payroll burden in a big way, just to stay in business.
The shareholders are going to hold BA management responsible for doing so....and make no mistake, it will be done.
The BA pilots thought otherwise, and they promptly folded like a house of cards, just as I predicted.
The BA cabin crew will do likewise, it just might take a little longer.
All these airline unions are swimming uphill in the present fuel price scenario, and I would suggest it is
they who are thinking of a bygone era.
These unions had better wake up...or their members will be out of a job in record time.
Like the message?
Probably not, but them's the facts.