The main reason why Bob Ayling had to leave BA, was that he lost the confidence of the workforce. On his watch the airline's debt soared. After BA he was virtually unemployable. Anyone recognise the analogy?
Mr Walsh has a confrontational style that will ensure industrial action is a reality. If you want to get your workforce onside, to work together altruistically, you do not adopt the posture Walsh has with deadlines and threats of imposition. Especially as the company would be in better shape and better regarded, if not for mistakes he has made. Would anyone fail to agree with me, that BA has suffered a loss of prestige since he became CEO?
The fact that he operates in this way also demontrates that he is not in BA for the longhaul, but just a smash and grab of long serving employees T&C's. Then he will be off.
If he can unashamedly sack two directors over T5, then everyone is at risk who gets in his way. Personally I do not like bullies. As Margaret Thatcher once said: "Bullies must be beaten" (sic)