Surely its about time that the BA staff actuallly realise that they may have to make some sacrifices.
Why should the staff have to make up for totally inept managers?
Poor forward planning and awful upper management decisions have created a loss this year. However, passenger numbers at BA have not dropped significantly in the last 12 months so at least its not all doom and gloom and is far from unrecoverable.
Huge fines and legal fees for price fixing, making a record loss, allowing customer service to decline (both in the air and on the ground), creating a total disaster of T5's launch and whipping up ridiculous media frenzy about working for free for a month, the question must be asked, what is Walsh still doing in that position? He is totally out of his depth with British Airways and should be shown the door, preferably without his golden parachute.
The whole issue (of working for free) has projected a completely unprofessional image to the general public about BA and is not the sort of thing that the Executive Club members expect from their prestigious flag carrier.