Don't mean to piss on your parade but what was he thinking about today making that "huge" annocument. Hardly earth shattering and if anything inflammatory.
Doesn't appear to be a man who wants to sort things out to me. I think he scored an own goal personally.
Not sure how you make it an own goal. The whole idea is to spread uncertainty around the cabin crew. Its pretty obvious that BASSA have no way to win and no exit strategy. He can still go nuclear anytime he wishes. BA are totally in control here.