I had an interesting though this morning..
The fines that are part of the BASSA legend of Willie's incompetence. Well at least one of these is now very unlikely to have to be paid. BA have already said they won't be paying the £121.5m the OFT wants and I can't see the OFT winning that one in court.
The interesting bit is that I estimate that the new 23 days of action combined with the previous 7 days will probably cost the company about £120m.... (Based on the ever decreasing number of strikers)
BA has already set aside the OFT fine and accounted for it in previous years accounts. It now looks like they can take that pot of money and use it to offset the BASSA/UNITE suicide train. It would be kind of ironic, if 30 days of strike action, costing the strikes 1/12th of their salary, ends up costing the airline exactly nothing.
I believe the term for the above scenario would be "Justice"
CB