Initially when the crisis hit, BA wanted about 1200 pilot redundancies, out of c4200. These would have been, if BA got its way, all the Jumbo pilots and all the LGW SH pilots. BALPA negotiated to get a voluntary scheme and the CRS, or Community Retention scheme, which was the pilot funded job retention scheme, whereby a pay cut was taken by all to keep some jobs. In the end c300 went into the CRS, 250 were made compulsorily redundant and some took the voluntary package. Pilots who remained were retrained (mainly) according to the Postings and Promotions rules that BA have. Those whore were pushed out with no choice went into a Priority Return Pool, whereby they would be offered jobs before any other external recruitment, but they would come back in as newbies in terms of pay and seniority. They retained their staff travel years of service. ALL these measures were contentious and are still causing pain and anger within the pilot community. The “gentleman” who wanted the draconian and vindictive culling without taking into account service or seniority, and who most pilots would not cross the road to urinate on were he to be on fire, has since left BA. We had a party the day after he left.