BA could easily save millions if they SOSR'd current crew, reemployed them ON THE SAME SALARY and just got rid if the restrictive practices and BASSA interference in the day to day operation.
Further recruitment onto Nu-Fleet would save further millions. I think most crew faced with losing their jobs or taking a job for the same money just working for BA rather than for BA as interpreted by BASSA would opt for the money. Even if in the long term they go elsewhere today they have to pay the mortgage. As a brief glance in any newspaper will tell you, times are tough, the employment market is not overflowing with well paid jobs.
BASSA picked the wrong dispute at the wrong time and, like the NUM before them will drift off into obscurity.