If the reports of onboard sabotage are even remotely true, IMHO that plane is no longer a transport mechanism needing a crew of cleaners--it's a crime scene. If there isn't police tape around it until a full forensic analysis has been done, then BA has lost the plot. Not to mention customers.
We pax have sat by trying to be supportive and not let the militants win and assumed BA will keep things safe, section away the worst of the militants who might be heading into even greater damaging behavior--and not just to the airline's
PR effort, either.
Understandably, due process with employees must be confidential.
However, if Mr. Walsh does not come out very soon with a video or email to the pax saying point blank that the culprits of such behavior will never again be on an airplane he manages--some of us are out of there. There is a breaking point for supportive pax---and emptying oxygen bottles, trashing galleys, removing safety items like eye wash and so forth is that breaking point for me anyway.
As a FF pax I really feel the need for some strong assurances--now. Unless somebody has left the premises in handcuffs, I'm not reassured.
Sorry, but perhaps it's time for a handcuffed perp walk through the CRC to drive home the seriousness of this. Tongue in cheek suggestion? Perhaps. But anything less than WW addressing these emerging rumors publicly, and we pax are going to be pretty wary that this alleged onboard sabotage is being dealt with.
I think we need to hear something from Mr. Walsh.