The difficulty comes with Kieth Williams re-iterating the fact that 'No BA pilot will be disadvantaged by the merger of BMI and BA' a fair few times during the GMM's running up to the ballot.
If this were different during the actual integration then I'm sure that there would be many who fekt they had been mis-informed.
What happens now is out of our hands, simple as that. The 'consultation' period is exactly that, a consultation. BA can listen to the wishes of the BMICC and then accept or ditch them as they wish. Nothing within the consultation is binding. As long as BA adhere to the requirements of TUPE they can place the BMI pilots where they wish. What happens afterwards is another ball game. I would think that being pay protected, fleet and promotion protected unless the option to move fleets was excercised would be a pretty good excercise of TUPE and would be quite difficult to challenge in court. Especially as BMI was on a rapid road to obscurity at the time of integration (Spanair, Malev and AMR all in the same time region).