Chuchinchow,
er, I do not know why you think us brilliant pundits are all magnates.
Are you the HR bloke that BA have just removed? You sound somewhat unhappy.
I've said more than once that I am currently unemployed - I'm just one of the 5 million unemployed that G brown did not care about. (Too early to assess the new bunch of crooks in Parliament for their attitude to the unemployed).
Diplome has never claimed magnate-ship either.
I happily pontificate because I have worked in aviation, (and in real businesses outside the inward looking world of aviation), and because I am arrogant enough to value my own opinion, and to believe that on some parts of this dispute I both have a modest inside track, and know what I am talking about, as well as valuing the opinion of other posters here.
I also like to hear the opposite point of view.