Sadly the crews for Openskies were all warned about the tenuous nature of the work during the run up to the BA/BALPA spat.
The genuine concerns for pilots of most of the BA line pilots were drowned out by a minority of doom sayers preaching that it was about time BA pilots got what was coming to them. The main target of the pilots venom was the irresponsible management who felt they were in a position to waste vast amounts of money setting up a rival to the mainline.
Bad news for anyone losing a job but all of the LCY jobs have, indeed, now been filled from the mainline.
Good luck to all.