Dear QNH1013 and comrades. Reading your comments i take it you have no objection then to some 3rd party crews(on lower slaries than yourselves)making an en-masse application for.. say... direct entry command positions in MAS purely because your management knows they are cheaper labour? The arguement that we are all 'just trying to better our conditions' may apply to you but at what cost to the pilots here who have already done their time and have had upgrades or basings opportunities and salaries trashed?...for the last 5 years! Good luck in your flying career but you won't get any CX troops onside...we're still speechless that 'they' are trying this when we are on the brink of industrial collapse..talk about lousy timing. Perhaps if they employ enough of you guys then they could afford to continue running the airline during the next breakdown in talks. If that's the game plan i would consider most carefully the merits of being caught in the middle!