Clevis, you seem happy to have accepted the imposed pay deal, how wonderful for you. The 'present economic situation' you refer to, is, I assume that which has been painted for you by our management. Enough said about that, I think.
Pilots have, and do, consider the welfare of those around them: believe it or not, on a day-to-day basis that is their primary responsibility. The PASSENGER (as jordan puts it),is usually at the ultimate forefront of every operational decision pilots make, every minute of the working day. At some point it must be time to start thinking of one's own self and family circumstances.
Pilots have specialist skills, managerial responsibilities, and experience which is comparable to no other employee group anywhere in the industry, except perhaps in engineering (and look what happened to the bmi engineers recently). The reason the dispute stretches across all 3 parts of the business is because their contribution has been consistently undervalued, and their quality of life eroded to the point at which they are no longer prepared to accept further bully-boy management tactics.
£500 is what Captains get if they work on a day off - operative words being 'day off', they do not have to, but are prepared to give up some of their free time to support the operation. In return the company rewards them the (pay attention now) minimum amount they can get away with in order to ensure that enough of them do so if asked, else the program would have collapsed years ago and none of bmibaby would still be in jobs.
You want £500 for a day off? Go back to school, take out a £75000 loan, train for 18mths, then compete for selection with hundreds of others and maybe you'll get a chance to earn that once or twice a month in about 7 years time.
Pilots already pay far more tax than you do, and if you can't be bothered to try and minimise that amount by use of the laws existing in this country for that purpose then you really are daft. The tax rules within bmibaby changed as result of a management decision that was warned against by the pilots, their ignorance/incompetence cost pilots lots of money. If they forgot to pay you one month would you be happy with "sorry, nothing we can do about it now?". I think not.
Profitshare rules are unchanged, not as a management concession, but because it would have been illegal for them to change them in the first place without consultation, since they form part of the pilots' contract. If the management said to you one day "by the way you have to work 6 on 2 off until further notice and we're also stopping you pension payments", wouldn't you be a littel unhappy at the illegal change to your contract?
Clevis, your post seems to stink more of jealousy of pilots than of any real understanding of the issues under discussion here, you also appear to have swallowed everything you have ever been told by management.
Are you already on the bmi board, by any chance?