bermudatriangle,
You seem to personify the BASSA Ostrich. It's against my hard earned 1970's terms and conditions? The only hard fight for those was the constant whine and toy throwing to enable you to keep them for so long in a competitive world.
I challenge you to find any other LH operator where a member of the CC with no active role on the aircraft earns more than some of the pilots and then still tell us you've 'earned' those T's & C's.
The CC pay structure is almost as great a millstone around BA's neck as the pension. Unless it is curtailed, structured and dragged, screaming and kicking into the current century then the prospects for the company certainly is doom and gloom.
As to whether LHR crew are worth their weight in candied gold? Nope, give me a good crew from LGW every time. Full aircraft, three working, well, hard and efficient plus fixed linking. Far better.