You're right. Perhaps pilots should wear ties and make PAs and let the airline ground the airline. That way the pilots lose no money, the company loses circa $200 million, and we end up in the FWC with an arbitrated deal that was probably better than what we were prepared to negotiate.
Oh, wait....
That FWC arbitrated outcome could’ve been agreed to the whole time but the unions insisted on claims that were never going to be agreed to and never going to be given by FWC.
You need to understand how they think. And giving in to industrial pressure is not an option for them.