So perhaps it was all about busting BASSA after all.
Busting Bassa...no.
Stripping them of power, allowing BA to run its airline as it sees fit...yes.
As predicted, we are now seeing pro-strike supporters crowing "we told you so..." as more routes are moved across to MF.
The simple fact remains....the original IA was focused on the removal of a crew member and the subsequent imposition. Instead of focusing on this and wheeling in the trojan horse (ie premature strike action...12 days over Christmas etc) BASSA should have focused on the real threat to our futures which is MF......compromised on working one down and got stuck into negotiating the MF or even an integrated option.
Now we are left with the remnants of a bitter dispute, the waters so muddied that even the most ardent supporter has lost focus on what the dispute is now (or what it what) really about. The negotiations that are happening now should have happened 18 months ago. And what has been achieved?...working one down will remain and MF is a reality, and exactly how BA wants it. Future strikes will be an irrelevance.
I see only one winner here and it ain't BASSA.