Lederhosen, You have hit the nail squarely on the head: BA pilots are very lucky to have Kevin, and the rest of the BACC. Why is it that BA Pilots are among the only legacy group worldwide to still be playing the game at all, let alone winning it? Kevin mentions luck and the business environment. True these things are important but equally, the BACC, have grasped opportunities when they came along. They ran with the luck and they turned it into something worthwhile for BA pilots! For that I will always be thankful.
Someone mentioned looking to the past. One of the difficulties in a situation like the one IB finds itself in is that people tend to compare what they used to have with what they currently have. It makes them angry because they are worse off, sometimes far worse off, than the used to be. But in reality the choice is a false one: the actual choice is between what you have got and some other alternative (often redundancy, company bankruptcy, still worse decimation of T&Cs). It takes a great leap of imagination to see this, let alone to try to understand what the realistic range of choices actually is, given that you old terms and conditions were not sustainable and were going to change in some form.
In my view, the BACC is worth its weight in gold simply because it understands this.