If a comparison is to be made, how do you tell a child that the man at the gate to your hotel who has a very big gun won't let you leave? Most children aren't afraid when a parent tells them the other parent isn't coming home for a couple more days after all because there aren't any flights. Okay, so the vast majority of the TC passengers aren't and never were held hostage but the PR for that is far worse than the PR for a business person being "stranded" and not getting home and, to me anyway, a lot more serious particularly when talking about such things in some of the countries where TC clients are now stranded. Besides it doesn't appear that it is BALPA that is hanging up the progress with BA so their members are simply working and the airline is simply deciding to fill seats with the TC clients. I'd like to know what the compensation to BA is for doing this? Is it more than a lowest econ fare?