Quidnunc, many of us would love to go and work for the likes of Easy or Go, maybe not Ryanair, but find ourselves trapped by the financial consequenses in terms of pension in particular.
All we can really do is hope that in the long term there will be a change of management and that we will be appreciated as the hard working and productive pilots that we are and not treated as an unfortunate expense.
At the moment BA management's incompetence is wasting all the productivity that we give them, and their sole concern seems to be to give our work to others in the form of franchises or subsiduaries. BAs one advantage over the competition is size, and by splitting their operation up into lots of smaller operations they give up this advantage.
BA management should look at how successful airlines run and try and emulate them. Unfortunately most BA management think that they are never wrong, and certainly will never admit it when they are.
I think that it is important for potential recruits to be warned what they are in for in terms of mismanagement.