Unfortunately for the outlook for the success of CX there seems little hope of any agreement or any chance of Management and pilots working together. The scale of the “NO” vote to Managements “Umbrella Agreement” of 79% to 21% means that Management are so far out of touch that nothing less than a sweeping new approach to relationships with the aircrew will bring about any hope of an agreement. And that just will NOT happen. They want us outside looking in rather than inside working together.
The offer of 1% pay rise was derisory and deliberate to show contempt to the aircrew (when all other staff were given a rise THREE times larger) and was correctly voted down in an emphatic manner. The plan of “teaching the pilots a lesson” and “putting the aircrew back in their box” will continue with no constructive effort to come to a real, lasting first world agreement.
While I am prepared to continue with Contract Compliance and the Training Ban ad infinitum the outlook for this airline as a career choice is looking extremely bleak.