That if the company genuinely wanted to introduce NF with assurances to existing crew, they would accept that offering a payment that (their own actions) demontrated could not be relied on was not the way to do it.
Instead we have the situation where you have variable pay that was always like that but now with the added problem that BA can just send New fleet to the Far East etc with vast savings to BA. At least the single payment stopped that problem.
If you were BA and starting new fleet now with no agreement and no chance of agreement from BASSA where would you send them?
I'm not saying BA are totally in the right but BASSA have made this many times worse for crew. Remember this time last year new fleet wasnt even happening had BAs proposal been accepted.