Diplome
It should not be seen as letting the cabin crew "off the hook". If you use this argument, then it goes back to the discussions many threads ago about union busting and how the economic downturn was used to realign cabin crew renumeration to market rate and removing BASSA's power too.
As the Judge said, (well it is what I believe the Judge said), if the financial situation was different, then maybe this result could have been. If BA return to multi million profit and the average crew wage has reduced, due to some sort of new deal, then I would be trying to protect against that now.