Litebulbs, it still means reintroducing cost to the business. Which means additional methods/ideas for cost savings need to presented and they are not to be found in the Unite Way Forward document.
The single most effective way to reduce cost is to sustain the current crewing levels.
BA is talking about reaching a formalised and finalised agreement by 31/01/10. With the court case starting on 1st Feb is BA intimating concerns about the outcome? Should Unite win the case they could, conceivably, offer to keep the current levels of crew and propose to forego the working one down payment for all crew providing BA are prepared to explore further assurances for current crew and also negotiate on how New Fleet is introduced.
Then again, as has been repeated often, it could be too late.
After all it's taken this long just to get BASSA to recognise the need for permanent change.