They won’t, the board has already set the wages rises for the next EBAs , it’s 2.5%. Should it be more, yes, without a doubt, but that’s what it will be.
As others have said, they can’t do that. They can suggest that as a wish list target for wage increase, but they will ultimately have to accept the salary (and the conditions) the pilots are willing to accept. Think I’m wrong? Ask any Cobham pilot, they were offered a salary reduction and a watered down bunch of conditions but thanks to unprecedented unity, ended up with the exact opposite.
It’s a pilots market when Cobham pilots manage to advance the ball in such a big way.