You are correct License to fly. This essentially was BA introducing a new pay scale for any future new entrants, changing the cost base for the future and not as people have been led to believe an attack on existing crews pay and conditions.
BA's intention is to spread the work across the fleets. New aircraft types when they arrive will simialrly be spread across the fleets. What people have forgotten is that it was the union who wanted it as a stand alone fleet. Routes will transfer between fleets.
2000+ crew have now signed up to an Individual Agreement and this gives them an annual top up if their own salary is down at all against the average salary for their grade. A no brainer. Routes on Mixed Fleet that attract payments wont any longer and that money is being moved to Worldwide to be paid on other routes and as an annual topup if triggered.
The monthly payment unfortunatly bit the dust a year ago in the talks as did the bid that cabin crew were offered for scheduling; not that the majority of crew were ever made aware of this.
Mixed Fleet is set to grow to 42% of the operating crew numbers from 01st November 2010. All future new entrants will be to Mixed Fleet contracts and rates of pay. The vacancies are being created by existing crew accepting part-time, people leaving, no temps for 2011 which usually number approx 500 and growth with new routes and increased frequencies resulting in aircraft being returned to service.