I was not referring to a three-year deal. I was just going on my past experience with this company. I doubt very much that you will need the top up payment as the figure is very low. If your allowances were under this figure a lot of our routes would have quickly moved to MF.
What I am suggesting is that the initial growth of MF will be relatively slow so you will never need the top up, what BA tend to do in this situation is remove the payment stating that it was never needed.
That is when the majority of the routes will be transferred to MF.
We will eventually be left with routes with very poor allowances and have no protection.
This will be the final phase of Operation Columbus, making the old fleet people transfer over to NF because the old fleet is no longer financially beneficial.
This would most likely be done by offering a payment to buy our contracts and put us on the MF contract.