Well with due respect, but BALPA- yes please. It wasn't BALPA that sold Dan Air pilots down the river. Dan Air was a defunct, bankrupt company. When a company is in that position, bits will be sold off to other companies that feel they can do something with them. Inevitably most of it will be terminated- if it couldn't make a go of it itself, how can other companies make it work. We are going to see a lot of that this year. The company went bust- it doesn't work that a more profitable company takes the whole thing over lock, stock and barrel. It makes the combined group weaker than the original. I'm afraid only parts were needed, and the rest has to be consigned to history. Pilot seniority system peculiarities are not enough to make a whole batch of pilots who are not wanted employed to get at the relative few who were wanted. I'm afraid that's how it is when companies go down. Your beef is with BA, not BALPA, a very small organisation with limited resources. BA did what it needed to rescue the limited bits of that organisation that were viable and make the company as a whole stronger. The fact that Dan Air wasn't working tells you the jobs of most of the staff were not justifiable. It sounds ruthless, but ultimately the law of the market must decide (unless you are a 'civil servant' or politician, in which case totally different rules apply under Brown's Britain!). It is sad, but it wasn't 'BALPA's failure', or BA's, but Dan Air's, and as such, anyone who walked away with a job was simply fortunate indeed.