the fight for survival seems to have been last years argument.
Perhaps that is because BA achieved the "survival savings" it needed by imposing what was needed on the cabin crew and negotiating savings with the other staff groups. The survival issue "going away: does not mean that it was some kind of opportunistic subterfuge. Nor does it mean that it has gone away, just that it is being managed.
Our economy is still in crisis, mortgages are hard to get, quantative easing may have been reduced but it is still going on. Business traffic may be recovering but it is still down on what it was 3 years ago. The market for the legacy carriers has changed, and the way that BA and the other carriers do business has changed.
The unions need to accept this basic premise and develop ways to work within this new structure, ways to work with business rather than against it. UNITE, and their client BASSA have completely failed to grasp this nettle and they are handling this whole dispute in a manner which is proving detrimental to their members. It is more about old fashioned union power and the political ambitions of the union leaders.