Oh, they won't have to put up with a strike, for one very simple reason: they want to sell the company and no investor will come within a hundred miles of an airline whose pilots are in formal dispute with its management. The Chief Operating Officer (whose time would be better spent in a nice little holiday job while he waits for his GCSE results) has formed the misguided opinion that he can simply bully his way to the solution he wants without compromise. Read the stats, Andy; in Prof. Muir's report period despite frantic recruitment you increased pilot numbers by a nett three. Flights are already being cancelled for want of crew. More aircraft are being delivered.
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