The anti-BALPA rhetoric is very en vogue but is totally mis-guided IMHO.
The effectiveness of BALPA at any particular airline boils down to its support from the pilots therein. Thats the way it works.
However, most pilots are too bloody blind to what is going on in the world outside their own airline to realise that they need to be setting the agenda rather than reacting to it.
Blaming BALPA is just dodging your personal responsibility for the s**t we're in.
The out-dated-ness of LIFO has been apparent since at least 2008.
It doesn't matter whether its FlyBe or BA, unless the law changes or a precedent is set, anyone sitting around thinking in a redundancy scenario they're safe because they're at the top of the pile is living in cloud cuckoo land.
The FlyBe situation is a s**t sandwich but it is not a surprise. Nor should it be to any other pilot sitting around with an industrial agreement saying redundancies will be conducted using LIFO.
Just like the FTL issue, perhaps pilots are gradually waking up to the reality that, regardless of which airline we work for, if we can all respect each other, stop thinking of just ourselves and our own "little" airline, stick together, we'd all be better off.
I'm laughing into my soup as we speak.
