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``But for that icing to be realised, their needs to be a one for one replacement of old for new. That may take some considerable time.``
That has always been the case in this and well documented and prepared for in BA`s proposals
Yet someone managed to scare the Bassa members with stories of 30% pay cuts, route transfers redeployment and sitting at home with no work.
So instead of a deal that compensated and protected the `legacy` crew (offered to and accepted by numbers of non Bassa members recently, albeit not as good as one Bassa refused ) the likeleyhood , unless Bassa/DH/LM come to their senses is that BA will transfer the lucrative routes to new fleet (FYI trainers have been recruited on 18 month contracts to train new fleet) and there will be a loss of earnings that may force many to seek alternative employment plus natural attrition plus crew who transfer to new fleet. That will formulate the initial growth of new fleet but you are correct that for all legacy crew to disappear some time will elapse.