Many, many years ago BA and its forerunners should have gone to the wall. They were bailed out by the government of the day, Trident, for example. I have no doubt they will, rightly or wrongly, be bailed out again.
Having flown the mutual skies for the past thirty six years it is very obvious that they do not operate from a commercial base.
Much as they would wish to be seen as 'in the loop', sadly they are not even close.
No reflection on the individual pilots, they are within a rotten system.