Regardless of the real cash flow/profitability accounting cascade and responsibility allocation for the profit/loss account, one thing seems fairly obvious:
Namely that household names in the Airline world are falling by the wayside, changing, and/or restructuring to best cope with the economic and socio-business changes we've all seen over the last couple of years.
What do we see from BA? We see an attempt to resist any and all change perceived as remotely disadvantageous to their pilots. To ensure this happens, we see an attempt to remove the BALPA GenSec, and have a BA line pilot elected instead - allegedly so as to get a further election to secure a new GenSec who will cause more industrial disruption to secure better terms and more money for BA.
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but this is ridiculous. Fiddling while Rome burns, behaving like a dinosaur...........