In what other major national carrier in the world are freshly minted wide body captains in their prime resigning to start at the bottom somewhere else?
This alone is the biggest indicator of Airline dysfunction. Management thought it was just a handful of the unhappy last year but the numbers keep growing. Recruitment can’t keep up with the resignation rate and 65 & 55 retirements so the airline shrinks, Command time & S/O time (over 5 years now) extend making for even more unhappy pilots.
So the vicious circle continues & I doubt very much whether management will be coming to the table anytime soon with an offer to break it so the title of this thread is very apt.