The ONLY reason the Management is even bothering to talk to the AOA is because of the training ban.
Otherwise they would just impose a new contract(s) that state sign or you are sacked and achieve their stated goal of saving HK$1 billion in pilot costs.
This new contract demand sign or be sacked, was exactly what they did at the turn of the century.
I still have my two letters. One from the DFO and a week later, another one from the MD (CEO).
BOC's the lot of them.
Without the training ban you have no cards with which to negotiate.