The airline needs to change course. It can't compete with the leaner airlines out there. We are approaching a time of industrial strife in a recession with pain all over. Changes have to be made- it's undeniable. But unless radical surgery does take place, BA will go the way of Pan Am and TWA. It's the last of the major old time survivors- we want to see it remain there. So a punch up approaches. It does not mean it is in immediate danger now, but it needs to win or the share price won't just be knackered, it won't be there.