GSL... I dont believe it is me who is out of touch.
Everyone marks a CC (or the mighty BALPA machine) purely on what they gain from management.
Whilst this may have been true in the past, in legacy carriers, with high percentage union membership, it no longer applies to the LCC model.
With ...management permananetly in 'cut-back' mode, your CC spends the majority of time fire-fighting, and trying to stop a backward slide!
Have you spent much time contemplating how much worse our conditions might now be without a union applying the brakes?
Forget fixed pattern, forget anything more than minimum legal leave, forget anything that they dont legally have to give you, like quality accomodation or crew food/water. The management want you to leave. They say they have plenty of people queing up to work far more, for far less.