Mr angry..... are you serious? this is a company on their knees with debts which would make bill gates lose an hours sleep.
The point being that the company is laden with chiefs, and they now want to spend more money (which they haven't got) probably being spent on something they don't need (more feathers), thought up by a guy with a degree who doesn't know one end of a plane from the other, which has taken him well over a year to compile, from an idea he got from another large company in the black, in a completely different business to the one he's in.
If you think that a shed load of cabin crew not knowing if they will have a job around xmas, having just seen a load of their colleagues/friends put on the scrap heap will think they are having a morale boost then I suggest you think again.
This is a company that not only wants a sizeable piece of the pie, but wants the lot, and to cook it their way, but employs a head chef who doesn't know how to make pastry.
So the odd thousand might make a hell of a difference, penny wise pound foolish as they say.