Will BALPA insist on BA F/O's being able to bid for Qatar 777F commands as they did with GSS (under the BA SCOPE agreement)?
One would hope that BALPA had more pressing priorities with the impending job losses amongst GSS employees than the continued rights of BA pilots to help themselves to other people's commands.
Should they insist on enforcing the scope clause, maybe those wishing to avail themselves of such an opportunity would consider the ongoing popularity of traumatic amputation in that part of the world.
That said, the BA guys I had the pleasure to sit next to over the last few years were gentlemen to a fault (well, most of them) and I hope they enjoy their return to the fold. Their good fortune was exactly that and who amongst us wouldn't have done the same, given the chance. Sayonara chaps, spare a thought for those of us consigned to the dustbin on your way onwards and upwards.