>>The few remaining companies of merit, (in my book, Monarch, Emirates, and some others outside Europe) put BA totally in the shade<<
Sick, I quite agree with you. Ultimately it is the pilot body who have let this happen. Collectively we have allowed airline management to regard us as a cost. Of course, our job demands more respect these days than it ever did.
It is not a career that you can now recommend to a young person. Good for life experience and then move on to something sensible.