BA had this plan long before the recession and long before they started negotiating
Ah - when all else fails why not resort to conspiracy theories. Are you also one who believes the judge was bent or bought?
We offered a very good deal to BA, including pay cut, the deal was worth a huge amount of money in savings but BA was simple not interested.
We are nearly upto 6300 posts on this thread - and there have been other threads before this one. This nonsense argument has been done to death.