Again congratulations on the duff gen Tinytim. 27 BAR pilots have bid for the RJ, and the bid for current RJ Gatwick pilots only closed on friday so how you know the result before BA is amazing. But i think you would be looking at at least another 20. Since noone else in BA has been given the chance to bid for it, not bad.
Market forces have nothing to do with it. Market forces would be if BA closed routes that easyjet flew. BA just want to wash their hands of everything outside fortress heathrow. They arent worried about how much they pay the pilots or they wouldn't have come up with the compensation for mainline pilots on the Rj. I think they are just chuffed to bits that your CC has failed to improve your T+C's on the RJ to a higher level. I cant believe you are proud of being the worst paid 110 seater pilots in Europe, that used to be us, its nothing to be proud of.
I feel sorry for the displaced in BACE, and believe me i'm not especially happy about the RJ being used as BALPA's hostage to scope, because believe it or not 6 days in a hotel at the NEC 3 times a month hadn't been in my plans for the next year