If it had been any other airline, would the vitriolic comments still filled 89 pages?
I suspect you're confusing ppruners' usual propensity to criticise BA with their propensity on this thread to support BA against BASSA.
No doubt when the dust has settled we'll all go back to normal habits.
But for the moment we're right behind Mr Walsh as far as I can tell, and would support public flogging of Unite's leaders, BASSA's leaders, and those who actually go on strike, if any do.
Strangely enough, there is a measurable growth of antipathy, hatred even, for BASSA/Unite on the CC thread on the same subject.