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[VintageKrug]

Seems all BASSA members were sent a text message late Friday night about this.

Both the nature and timing of the communication seem suspect to me; to release such information at a time when all senior management will be away from their desks for the weekend does not really make sense.

What will happen is a load of unfounded speculation, and whether or not the veracity of this statement is proven, there will be a lingering doubt that this is indeed the corporate strategy, and that can only build support for and benefit BASSA.

Note the timing on the second day of operations for BAs new Paris-New York 757 service http://www.flyopenskies.com against which the unions campaigned vociferously.

The reality is that any firm of BA’s size will have a number of strategic options being explored by various consultants, and indeed has a responsibility to shareholders to set out plans in these areas.

Whether or not they will be put into practice is a completely different matter.

However, should oil hit $200/barrel it would be incumbent on senior management to have a back up plan, and this may very well be it.

Such a strategy may be the only way to save the airline in such a scenario.

Would that such foresight were applied operationally within BA………

Expect BA Management to deal with this issue with their usual aplomb over the course of the weekend.

However, I do think it’s a storm in a teacup engineered to scare members, so the seeds of doubt in non members to get them to join BASSA and to make some interesting headlines for the Sunday papers, countering the good news stories surrounding Open Skies.

A rather childish way to communicate to members and something which will probably result in a sleepless night for a few.

Lots of conjecture on PPrune about this already:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=331998

[TROLLYDOLLY]

This has been been confirmed to the chair of bassa tonight by the head of BA In Flight Services….Simon Talling Smith…he wishes to discuss

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