As for the BMI guys, do you really want to be part of a dysfunctional airline that is racked with industrial relations problems, and be the catalyst of a pernicious downward spiral of pay and conditions at BA?
Just to add a perspective, a very senior manager at BA told me that if BMI is a stand-alone opco at LHR, he fully expects IAG to wait 6 months, and offer slashed pay and T&C's as a take it or leave it. He believes IAG are happy to sit out any ensuing strike, and only then will they start the transfer across of routes and investment.
Either way we are all between a rock and a hard place
