I feel more optimistic, ... because we have a solution to the problem of the pension fund, which was an enormous problem.

more optimistic than I have been in the past that a deal is there to be done.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

Demand from pension fund and insurers should be relatively firm.

BA is entering what we feel will be a tense six months for industrial relations as the pension fund deficit and the three-year wage deal come up for negotiation with the unions.

There is a huge pension problem here and someone is going to have to pay for it.