the e-mail lets the managers move on to a classic ploy.
ooops you're right. The offer was what we thought we could afford but we agree the contibution the flight crew have made as a whole is worthy of an additional exceptional increase........
so they add a little to their offer and everybody thinks we've won - except it's basically what they bargained on all along.
i've done it before, no reason to think they won't...
