Reading some of the stuff on these threads takes me back to before there was an internet.
If anything is going to be the death of BA, these outmoded union practices will be.
Some people in Big Airways need to wake up to the realities of the modern corporate World.....you may not like it, but some of you have had it very very good for a very long time - probably 10-15 years longer than most global corporates, where downsizing, offshoring, erosion of T's and C's, big bonuses for the bosses who cut costs etc. have been the norm for years.
Get out of the 1970's folks and accept the inevitable before it's too late.