Or could it be that BA are trying to avoid a strike. Fullstop.
One point. Whilst the savings targets for other departments may have been set, they were not for cabin crew. The initial figure of £82million was scrapped in favour of job reductions which could save double the original amount. And, herein lies a problem for cabin crew unions and indeed BA. The goalposts keep moving. Perhaps if the initial figure of £82million had been set in stone, then maybe cabin crew would have been much closer to the savings by now, if not achieved.
The vast majority of crew who do not subscribe to crewforum believe that change is necessary but that Walsh is taking the opportunity to go further. I don't blame him, thats the game, but at some stage I believe he will need to see that his stance can only bring damage to the company in the long term. For matters to move the first compromise has to come from him.