Perhaps I am ill-informed but don't a lot of BA chaps move over to Virgin when they retire at 55 and then fly for another 5 years?
If you already have your BA pension coming in then surely you could afford to work for the Virgin "crap salaries" as someone else put it?
The sad thing is that I would suspect that this does nothing for the advancement of the T & Cs of the other guys in Virgin who are not ex-BA. In short, the Grinning Pullover must be laughing all the way to the bank.