Wizofoz:
The answer to both points is No. I quit the aggrevation some years ago, and like others found a suitable niche in avaiation and discovered another life hiding latently outside my roster.
I'm just trying to pass on a few snippets to others who feel themselves in the same boat, but with more time and future to do something about it. I tried, via 2 national unions & the ECA, to try and persuade them that something needed to be done, and offered comments, advice and the time to help. Stoney silence. I moved around testing various pastures, but there were no greener ones, so I looked outside the glamour, went a little on the wild & rough side, and put a smile back into aviation.
Good luck to those with time enough, and energy enough to keep at it.
Just think; if you do nothing the airline world will controlled by the likes of Lorenzo, the ex-bosses of Air Europe it. & Volare, indeed the ex-bosses of every potentially good airline that was led down the swany. Horrors, some of them are still lively enough to start up again. AGH!