Whilst I'm now bordering on the pedantic, you said:
The rumours in BACX were that BAR was not profitable and that when added to the BACX fleet the profitable Manx, BRAL and Brymon became unprofitable. Whatever the truth is (and it depends on which accountant you ask) is again immaterial
This one doesn't depend on which accountant you ask. BAR made money. £12M profit. The accounts are there to see and there is no disputing that. Adding that profitable entity to BACX did not make it suddenly unprofitable.
. Basically, BACX guys saw the BA guys as 'taking' there jobs, much the same way as the BA guys see operations by BACX out of Gatwick as 'taking' their jobs.
But the BACX crews didn't see the closure of the regional bases as taking BA jobs, did they? They were offered jobs on the RJ by their management before
any discussion had taken place between BA and BALPA about how or if the aircraft would be transferred and who would crew them. Those offers were no more valid than if BACX had offered them positions on Concorde in case they could get hold of those when BA disposed of the aircraft.
We could already have a regional payscale in place and a single workforce with better T&Cs than the current BACX ones, plus a BA seniority number for some (if not all) BACX pilots with a route into BA mainline proper for all. Unfortunately the BACX reps didn't want that, and so we are left with the situation we have now.