What is actually to be achieved by BASSA with more negotiation?
They failed to negotiated when everyone else did back before the deadline in 2009. Why should BA believe that they will enter meaningful negotiation now. They never,ever, have in the past. They have utterly failed in their initial shouting down of the BA requests and that smarts. They haven't got their way through the courts and now like petulant children they are blaming everyone and everything except their own incompetence.
Willie Walsh has a mandate from the shareholders and the other 65% of the company staff to keep the company running and not to fold taking with it huge investment but more importantly 35,000 jobs.
I just do not understand the point of the continuation of the Unite/BASSA stance on imposition when it has proven relatively painless and been proven to be tenable by the judiciary and not contractual.
Please remember that this dispute is purely about imposition. The discussion/action about 'New Fleet' and any other changes to the LHR terms is yet to come.
Kill off BASSA, they have lived in the past for too long and give all of the BA hardworking and professional crew correct representation that reflects the 21st century and not the 1980's.