Well this has certainly cast rather a gloom over proceedings.
Whilst few of us had imagined the IAG/BA management team would have arrived at the table emanating an aura of amiable empathy, we certainly hadn't envisaged them being fully versed in Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War!' This is a massacre. Over 40% in a very real danger of imminent redundancy.
Whilst there may have been some at BMI who were deluded enough to think this was going to be an amiable and symbiotic integration, I don't think anyone was expecting this to to resemble an assimilation by the Borg Collective!
It seems that the gloves are well and truly off, except that if this was a boxing match the referee would have stopped it almost immediately.
My sincerest commiseration's to those affected. So far.