ryanair want to shut down this very effective form of communication for ryanairs pilots.
Very effective form of your own personal self aggrandisement, you mean Didimus. Last time I checked your REPA identity, you were up to 450ish posts, making you the second most prolific author after Agent Johnson himself. Been a busy little beaver, haven't you! Pitty you're being somewhat economical with the truth now, though. What about all those suggestions to 'key' the cars of those pilots who showed up for work in Dublin? What about the wickedly false attacks on Ryanair maintenance standards and quality of training, both of which I can tell you are world class? What about the LO'C 'fatigue' beatup? What about incitement to 'sickoffs' and other forms of industrial disobedience? What about nearly destroying JG after he good-naturedly offered to bulwark REPA's pathetic opening gambit? False claims of discrimination and intimidation by Ryanair? Talk about the prostitute calling the pole dancer a slut! Priceless hypocrisy, Dim Repa. All of these, and other, sticky fingered activities will, sure as night follows day, come back to bite you in the arse, Didimus, and not before time.
The real story here, folks, is that IALPA and BALPA are beside themselves as Ryanair goes from strength to strength. Threatening their existance and very purpose as pilot unions, Ryanair is emasculating once proud and occasionally profitable airlines, and overwhelming their traditional markets with better service, hugely improved punctuality, the highest margins, lowest costs and greatest profitability on earth. Not surprisingly, then, these desperate and rather pathetic attempts at ingratiating themselves on a pilot corps who clearly don't want them, by whatever nefarious means and through whatever targets of opportunity, even with the offer of free representation (€€€ouch€€€), reflect a woefully turgid organisation who'll resort to pillory and threats, especially when the "quality of opinion" (morning Aloue) is discordant with their own. If you wish to understand unions, observe a group of capricious two years olds at play for half an hour. Disturbing, yet instructive parallels.
Unions in general, and pilot unions in particular, are, with tiresomely familiar regularity, the Angels of airline death and should be strenuously resisted to the last...no matter what. Understand that, Minuteman, and you understand me completely.