Andy S, BASSA's firepower is spent. They have, sadly, been exposed on all counts, as witless and inept in all that their reps have touched over this issue. Unless there is wholesale change in the BASSA representation, Willie Walsh and the BA LT will always trump UNITE. Simply, there are more able (with more ability (acumen)) people managing BA now (thank goodness), than there are in opposition (erm, apart, maybe, from BALPA).
Simples.
Nurj