[QUOTE=ratechaser;35395536]given what people around here think of BA IT./QUOTE]

Unusually for the BA forum (where a few posters base their FT career parroting what "people on this forum" think), this one isn't really a case of opinion. It's widely documented that BA's shonky IT has been directly responsible for a number of occasions recently where the business has been massively disrupted, resulting in millions of lost revenue and hundreds of thousands of customers being grossly inconvenienced.