Airlines and their management will squeeze every penny they can from their workforce as long as it is within the law. Forget the sprit of it. They only think about making money for the shareholders and themselves.
Answer? Write to your MP. Lobby fellow pilots. Can you imagine the publicity created from 10000 pilots writing to their MPs'.
Night flights bring on tiredness with creates long term fatigue and it must be stopped.
The situation will get worse however with in flagging, again a point to write to your MPs.
We alone are the master of our future profession. Get together as one entity and we can have a voice. A brick wall awaits those that shout at airline management!!