Usual inability to think outside the box, glamgirl. BA staff complacency in the past has been staggering. It seems to remain so.And Skipness, look at the situation from a business point of view, not a spotter's.
Downsizing is the name of the game in a struggling company. Nothing to do with types of aircraft. Or redundancy payments. Those are one-offs and a normal part of £££write-downs. Tax efficient too.
BA will need to be smaller and more efficient if it is not to go the way of Sabena, Swissair and others. It will likely be reconstructed to survive like Alitalia, hardly a pleasant example.
And all other UK BA bases have been down-sized to almost nothing, MAN, BHX and GLA being good examples.
OH well, I don't want to pick a fight here, so I'll stay quiet and watch developments. With my head out of the sand.