Glamourhoagie
If you look you'll see that Openskies is on its knees, and up for sale; so not much of a threat currently - plus there's enough going on at BA anyway.
But, in my view, Balpa's action worked!
We stopped Openskies threatening our work at London, and demonstrated strong resolve and intelligent and resourceful negotiating to BA mangement.
We tried to show leadership to your reps / members but they didn't pick up on it, which is one of the reasons you're in a pickle now. If only Bassa had seen the threat and been proactive.
In the same way crew now sneer at pilot pensions without realising that it is solely thanks to Balpa that you still have a decent pension, or any pension at all.
Certainly Bassa reps don't understand the 1st thing about pensions so merely try to copy Balpa's work.