To reaper and beaver and all you others who think I am a defeatist, I am not. I was a member of a PLC with BALPA for some years in a past life and fought long and hard for decent T&Cs, with some success, I like to think.
With RYR and increasingly, also with EZY, I am a realist. These airlines operate to a different set of rules.
If STN voted for BALPA recognition, yes, MOL would close the base and operate the flights, or most of them, from the other bases. Simple logistics, I'm afraid. The customers would probably notice nothing at all.
The pilots would be out of work and BALPA would be powerlwess to do a thing about it, even with 100% membership at STN or anywhere else, come the day.
Base closures come outside the remit of BALPA. They are simply decisions made by the company management on financial and commercial grounds.
Eff all anyone can do about it I'm afraid.
See you in the dole queue!