Start hiring/training now, for new CC, to be ready for the fall season of cutback flights.
You don't seem to understand that there will be a strike if BA recruit a single cabin crew on a a contract with different terms and conditions to the agreed ones now.
BA managment are not the brightest of the people in the world but they are not stupid and they know thay are playing with fire.
What makes BA? It's pilots, crew , ground staff and little more.