This is aimed mostly at Leclairage:
I don't think you'll find many businesses more cut-throat than the airlines.
My salary is not bad but I could earn significantly more in the City. The reason I don't, I like the lifestyle. However, part of my salary (the deferred part) is made up of the pension which BA
promised me and my colleagues when we joined.
BA are the most profitable airline in the world and they can afford to pay it, BALPA can prove they can afford to pay it and they damn well will pay it or they'll face the consequences, which will more than likely cost their shareholders far more than leaving well alone. Ask yourself how would you like it if some short-termist manager (I use the word advisedly) with no morals whatsoever tried to enhance his bonus by shafting you for half a million quid?
I quite liked this one:
The pax they/you carry have duly paid their/your employer the price asked for safe, timely travel from A to B.
... and my employer duly pays me the price asked for safe, timely travel from A to B. However, if my employer thinks it can reduce the price by 40%, no-one will be travelling anywhere.
Finally, as far as my job being straightforward, if you think it even compares in the slightest to holding a PPL and IMC, you are deluded. If you think it's that easy, get your ATPL and put your money where your mouth is. Until then, as you clearly have no idea, I suggest you wind your neck in.