Litebulbs
The result is not really very important - as you say the real issue here is if there is an adverse outcome for BA and the court awards compensation at the working down level the savings that BA have achieved over the last year would have been wiped out. A rough estimate would be 3x11500x12x the working down payment. I do not know the level of the working down payment but if it is £100 that is £41.4M per year.
This cost will have to be recouped from somewhere in the IFCE budget and the simplest way to do this is the 90 day notice and re-engagement on MF terms and cinditions. While this has been mooted many times on this and other threads but BA has not yet been pushed into a corner by UNITE during this dispute, their thinking and manoeuvering has kept them ahead so far. IA was the UNITE final option, we have yet to see the BA final option, perhaps it would be better if the CC community do not push BA too hard. BA still has options and none of them would be pleasant for the cabin crew.