Oh Dave, don't start that nonsense again!
The £200 isn't an incentive for crew, it is a deterent for the company. It only applies to long range flights where crew rest is a legal requirement for the flight to continue to operate. I can tell you it is hard work trying to rest with the lights on full, mask or not. If, when reported, the company did some maintenance to the lights it wouldn't cost them anything. Unless under the internal market system it is cheaper to compensate crew rather than pay engineering?
And the rest, well Bassa have accepted they are outdated and have no relevance anymore.
I wish this dispute to be resolved, and quickly, but dragging up old arguments is inflamatory and unhelpful. Recent articles in the Independent, the Guardian and the FT suggest that now is the time for Walsh to check his ego and stop being so macho. It will now cost the company very very little to stop the waste of an estimate £150m that the latest strikes are estimated to cost.