I wonder how the armchair pundits on this thread - clearly all considering themselves to be very important magnates of commerce, industry and finance in their own right - who appear to have much free time to pontificate on how British Airways should or should not manage its business, would feel if their enterprises and concerns were subjected to the same public criticism and unsolicited advice?
More to the point, could any of them do better than the current British Airways' board of directors?
As to #1, I am a director of a public company and so well used to public criticism and unsolicited advice. If I didn't wish to endure this, I would change profession.
As to #2, without undertaking due diligence, I could not say.