dicksynormous,
you are dead right, saying that pilots wouldn't or could't do any of the tasks like baggage handling and ground functions is complete tosh. In a former life I like you have done the lot and would be only to happy to lend my 'skills' to helping the airline through this tight spot. Methinks that some of these tossers think to highly of themselves and don't realise that baggage handling is an artform easily learned, come to think of it so is driving a bus and a tug.