Anyone get the feeling that these blokes should be represented by an association that has several decades of experience in this stuff? AIPA!!
They are either about to be sold a pup, OR, they know damn well the conditions are seriously inferior to that of mainline pilots and don't care.
If it's the latter, it seems they are about to do something that in my mind ranks LOWER than what various people did back in nineteen eighty nine.... They are about offer to do one group of pilots' work for less - while that first group is currently still doing the work, indeed flying the actual aeroplanes. They should hang their heads in shame at what they are doing to the "profession" by playing the divide-and-conquer game with Dixon against the mainline pilots.
This industry is a disgrace.