Personally, the more that BA pilots get the better and for this one reason:
the more money they get the more tax they pay!
The more tax they pay the more money our government has available to provide more doctors, nurses, teachers classrooms etc, etc. And who provides the funds in the fist place? Here's the best bit!
Not the British taxpayer, not the general public but the flying public!
All those people who clog up the roads driving to the airport; the same ones who sit in aeroplanes which create noise and increase pollution, etc, etc.....
I'm all for as much money as possible being extracted from the air travelling public being given to the pilots who can then give it to HMG!
Go for it chaps!