They long abdicated any "national airline responsibility" by centralising at Heathrow and stuffing the regions this is particularly true at Manchester !
If it wasnt bad enough to pull their own services they then put pressure on other airlines to do likewise Qantas, Cathay and Iberia to name but three !
...BA can go hang as far as i'm concerned and if the strike brings about their downfall, so be it !
They deserve all they get !
Cheers