Oh, and for the hotheads calling for pilots to be reported to BASSA for announcing the court result on the p.a. to passengers a couple of things,
1) It's your union, not ours, and it holds no sway over us. The fact the myth persists you can be punished by your union when you pay them says so much about the deliberately generated mystique that surrounds BASSA.
2) So tell BA instead - do you think for a moment they'll discipline a pilot for passing on news that nigh on every one of our passengers will have been immensely relieved to hear?
So, report away, haven't BASSA got enough on their plate already?