Carmoisine,
Opinions on the BALPA issue are like ar8eholes: everyone has one.
You have your opinion of BALPA membership and recognition, I have mine and Ryanair management have an opinion.
Your title, using the word "threatens", could equally be used to describe the perception the management have, "threatened" by a group of pilots pressing for union recognition somewhere, when they have, for whatever reason, a tangible dislike of unions.
The whole issue has been done to death;unless BALPA and those pushing for recognition can come up with a swathe of benefits we can expect to fall at our feet if they are successful, why don't we give the whole sorry tale a rest and save some bandwidth?