To you pilots; how would you feel if BA put forward a proposal which said that they will introduce an equivalent fleet to NewFleet with less basic salary plus a few pounds over market average which would you sooner or later have to transfer to or resign? Because that's exactly what will happen to us! It's sad if you can't or won't realize that obvious facts. Eventually there won't be any flights left for those of us on "mainline" and we'd be put on endless sby blocks. Yes, we might have this wonderful "fixed monthly travel payment" to rely on but for how long?
New Fleet was off the table at one stage. It's only the fact that BASSA threw their toys out of the cot and refused to negotiate that it's back on. You (BASSA) had plenty of opportunity to prevent New Fleet but for reasons best known to yourselves, you chose not to, so don't come crying to the rest of us now that it's going ahead.