A little note on airline management
Turret,
Don't run an airline like your local Mickey-Dos (McDonald's)...
the complexities of safety adherence, operational restrictions, and diversity of options in which to expand productivity-increasing ideas propel this industry beyond where most commercial enterprises run dead in their tracks...
understand in this way your employees are equally one of your greatest assets, and like GGV rightfully said, manipulating their situation and capabilities is not going to structure a free-market environment...
this is where the backlash of your actions is now resulting from...
lest we forget, people are 'dumb', but a group of persons is observant, intelligent, and cunning...
divide and conquer takes on a new twist you might say...