MissM
This has never been a fight for survival.
Have you seen the financial results for the last two years. How bad would they have been if other departments had not committed to the working practices and cost-cuts that they have?
How much better would they have been if you had too?
Still not accepting that the airline has a mountain to climb to get back to profitability? Unbelievably delusional.
This industry (industry by the way -not just BA) is on a knife-edge. We are affected by just about every major event in the world - be it ash, adverse weather, terrorism, SARS, Foot and mouth, recession and so on.
Fuel costs will keep rising. How do you think THAT alone is going to be paid for? Increased airfares?
Your union appears to have accepted that something needs to change otherwise they wouldn't have offered the savings they did - adequate or not.
so why do you say "This has never been a fight for survival. "