The costs of a Captain at BA are high at the top (final salary pension etc etc), I can see what the company are doing here, they are reducing long term costs at minimal expense (redundancies are tax deductable etc). The quicker they can get a majority of BAP pilots into the fold the sooner they can address the costs of NAPS and APS (and of course the new PP schedule agreed for the integration of BMI). Once the NAPS / APS pilots become a minority it will be hammered!