The proposed changes can hardly be considered cost-saving initiatives, so what is the point of them other than an ex-Ryanair hammer thinking everything is a Ryanair nail. Trying to push through a bunch of "may last airline did it like this" changes on the back of a crisis and attempting to get it through before the government announced any initiatives and months before any indication of how this crisis was going to pan out is acceptable, but only because some other airlines were commercial failures on their own...?