Pension comparison
Just for interest, my Civil Service Pension as a Higher Executive Officer (equivalent to jobcentre manager) would be £15,000 if I had put in forty years. In fact I left at age 50 and so get about three quarters of that. I worked in private sector IT for the last ten years at about the same level of seniority and this earned me the princely pension sum of £500 per annum NOT index linked.
I would not wish to get into a dispute about who should be paid what. Just for comparison though, Lurker's anticipated £21,992 is comparable to a Civil Service middle to senior management pension. And more to the point, the £500 pa I have earned in the last ten years is typical private sector pension provision. I know works managers with forty years service with private sector pensions below £5000 pa. If I were in Lurker's position my sole priority would be to see BA survive.