Excellent post PC767
I hope BASSA takes a pragmatic view of what is coming. Their refusal to accept any changes may have forced Willies hand. CC costs are the elephant in the room as far as BA are concerned and he may take a radical approach that may not have been required had BASSA been more pragmatic earlier.
The average cost per crew member in the CAA charts does not necessarily reflect salary. The costs of administrating the allowance/box system must be high, quite apart from the insane management structure. I've noticed that CC managers have suddenly started turning up at every briefing..... job justification??
Theres a whole pile of stuff that Rod Eddington should have dealt with. Willy has to deal with it and it will be interesting to see what he comes up with.