I very much doubt it. You can read all about it at this special BALPA site. The boring reason is that there is considerable room for compromise, and the interesting reason is that I don't think the pilots are up for it. (This is all about merging - or not - seniority lists; and the terms under which mainline pilots might transfer to OpenSkies - and eventually the other way round.)
I think it's fair to say that Mike Stoddart was not the highest-profile analyst in the UK before Monday this week, and in aviation nobody knew him at all. But they do now. Mr Stoddart, of Daniel Stewart Securities, is the man who this week knocked more than a quarter of the value off premium-class transatlantic carrier Silverjet with a single devastating note to investors. He says Silverjet will inevitably fail, which has the virtue of clarity at least.
Press release heading from Austrian Airlines: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER THOMAS KLEIBL TAKES INITIATIVE IN AMICABLE CANCELLATION OF HIS BOARD OF MANAGEMENT CONTRACT
So that's cleared that up then.
Choosing to launch its mainland European subsidiary OpenSkies through the medium of a blog looks to be paying off nicely for British Airways - a day later they've got 53 comments! And they're virtually all positive, some wildly so.
Showing himself to be the very model of a modern airline CEO, Dale Moss has gone public with British Airways' new operation from 'somewhere in Europe' to 'the New York area' by launching a blog. And he's done it primarily in the USA (in the sense that that's where all the contact details apart from the London snail-mail address are listed.)
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