HZ123 - you really seem to have a chip on your shoulder about crew costs, you've posted a number of times that 'expensive crew' are the downfall of the BAs regional operations. Do you actually have any first hand experience of BAs regional operations?
Can you give me any real examples of crew coming under the BA banner and so increasing costs? I don't recall the Brymon or BRAL crews getting a whopping pay rise when they were bought out by BA, or suddenly downing tools and refusing to do cabin dividers or seat conversions (by the way, which of these regional aircraft actually had converting seats?). In fact quite the reverse has happened. With the hand over of BAs regional operation crew costs have gone down, with flight crew wages dropping even further below most low costs operators and BAR cabin crew working with fewer crew per aircraft and converting the seats and cabin divider themselves.
If you had any knowledge of regional ops you'd find that crew costs are a tiny part of the equation, almost insignificant in comparison tp the £10000 per month taxi bills for ferrying aircraft parts, or the £32000 per week being paid to wet-lease operators to cover the schedule when mis-management mess things up again.