From the above the following seems apparent following the IAG purchase of BMI:
Now let's look at that more closely.
Losing out on a Command in BA now is only a temporary measure. There
will be Commands available in the future. As BA is a very large employer, those Commands will become available a lot quicker than they would elsewhere in the industry, so this will only be a slight delay in career progression for those senior BA F/Os.
Losing a job at 'Baby' is permanent. Those Pilots will be out of work with no Command career prospects, even for those who were already Captains. With the present state of the industry they have
very, very uncertain futures facing them. (The agreement that has put BMI 'mainline' Pilots in a position that is 'giving' them those BA Commands has ensured that they don't face the same bleak future that the 'Baby' Pilots do.) If they get employment in airlines that have rigid 'seniority list' arrangements, their most experienced Captains will most likely have to wait it out as F/Os until much less experienced Pilots already in the airline have had their opportunities to take up Commands. (Imagine that in other industries: "Yes, I know that you were one of the top nuclear design engineers in that company that went bust, but here you'll have to take your turn behind those newly employed graduates"...!!)
For "Count" to make a big fuss about the temporary loss of a Command opportunity in one of the most secure employers in the industry shows a level of mean selfishness that gives 'Nigels' a bad name in the rest of the industry. I hope that his colleagues are giving him and his likes a figurative 'doing over behind the bike shed' for helping to give them a collective bad name.