Litebulbs,
It is my opinion that a new contract or new fleet is the end game and I am sure that most crew agree, the 2 issues could have been discussed separately.
Why should they have been discussed separately? Cabin crew in BA are the last group with a cost base that is severly in need of reduction. Thanks to the intransigent, dishonest actions of BASSA and it's militant adherents, BA cabin crew are now pretty much
guaranteed both new contracts and fleets. Whose fault is that? It isn't the company's!
Other BA workers, who
negotiated (as opposed to hissy-fitted),
in time, and had the good grace to get on with reducing costs in a time of need, are now fed up with BASSA and it's 'stirrers' so they won't get sympathy from anyone else. In fact, it is well beyond the point of where other BA workers feel it is time for BASSA sympathisers to get the 'trouble' they have so long been spoiling for! Serve them right!