A few pages back, Airage, was considering the problems for BA should one of the f BA franchise aircraft end up with a serious incident and the negative impact of pictures of a BA coloured tail. There is another viewpoint.
People at GB are very concerned about such an incident. The chances of it happening with a BA mainline aircraft are approx 20+ times more than with a GB aircraft: (250 aircraft in BA, 11 aircraft in GB). The public watching tele won't appreciate the differences in the two separate companies. So, problems that eminate from BA mainline can affect GB in a very big way.
In a similar vein - once the public get wind of the fact that they can't guarantee particular flights because of impending militancy, bookings will plummet, just like they did a few years ago when BA cabin crew took strike action. This matters to the small airlines and their staff, because they know that it is the passengers that ultimately pay the wages and keep things going. I'm not convinced that the vocal element in BA flight crew have taken this obvious fact on board. The hostile element in BA, make many in GB very nervous about Scope. Why swap a regime of good Balpa versus Company industrial relations for a hot bed of problems which are unlikely to ever be resolved.?