Twang if you are going to raise a point make it reasonable, I am unaware of any longhaul routes operated by Ryanair. Put 385 people on a Jumbo to Sydney for 24 hours or 100 a time going between Stanstead and Dublin every hour! Soon distorts the figures. Are you a bean counter. If not you are in the wrong job with those maths skills.
All areas of BA seem to be staffed by a vast number of people close to retierment. When I worked there some years ago, there were thousands on pay scales dateing back to Nationalised times. Some will have gone but not all. They need to swing the axe hard. As a previous post said not 1800 but 18000. Give them really good payoffs take the financial loss for a year or two and then bring young blood in on industry rates. Paying a Red Cap £25,000 a year plus all the O/T they can handle when Service Air could do the same job for £12,000 is madness. The same is true in most areas.
One thing to look out for though, If the share price (270p at close) goes any further south, unwanted suitors may be on the horizon.