I think it was also the same chairman, when they closed his AMS base, who found and pushed a way to re-interpret the basings policy to get new positions in LON created and made available to AMS crew, while nobody else got to bid in seniority for those new positions. Right? If that was the new normal, then what happened when they closed the CDG base? Rhetorical question......
Rhetorical or not CR, you can just leave a post like that hanging allowing others to think the positions should have been open to bid. Read the policy again and you can see clearly how many holes are in it to allow such a process to occur. Holes big enough the Company could virtually do what they want...and they did!
"In the event of a reduction in overall crew levels in, or closure of, a Home Base, suitable Officers who are already Based or have been awarded a vacancy in that HB will be given the opportunity, in seniority order, to relocate to another Home Base within the Base Area, subject to a position being available regardless of aircraft type, or to another Base Area, or to Hong Kong. Relocation will be at the Company's expense to the levels provided for in the Officer's Conditions of Service."