I am glad that the BA pilots here have repeated and emphasised the point about being creditied with flight hour pay whilst taking bunk rest. This does not occur in many other airlines, in particular the Middle East carriers.
As far as Wirblesturm's suggestion for flight crew to double up as cabin crew, how many pilot strikebreakers were sacked and disciplined during the cabin crew dispute for insulting passengers?
BA pilots post shocking, foul-mouthed rants on Facebook over cabin work after breaking strike - Mirror Online
Those of you reading these posts can see the similarity in the attitude and comments in this thread to those of the sacked and disciplined pilots. There seems to be a common streak running through most of them, if this forum is representative.