Johhny, your spot on, where's the rationale for negotiating further advances in pay and conditions come into play as your airline becomes more profitable, when the parent company you work for already turns out record profits every year? Your also correct in saying basically that anybody who wants to fly long haul international for peanuts and work their pants off for it is welcome to it.
Instead of attacking pilots base pay and conditions, and I emphasise base here, the pilot groups could be looking for efficiencies and savings in other areas. And that doesn't include foregoing 3%pay rises as some enterprising individual suggested on Qcrewroom.