I think your reasoning is a little out of date ECC. BA have already shed hundreds of managers in the last 12 months. There's plenty more there, but now it's just because BA like to give the title to pretty much anyone. The high grade, high pay managers are few and far between. Claiming that the company is up the creek because of excessive management numbers doesn't wash anymore, and the companys in better shape operationally than it has been for 5 years. The reason the business is up the creek is that premium pax numbers have dropped off a cliff, hot on the heels of the world economy. To deny that would defy credulity.