This situation seems to have many similarities to ryanair. What is it about Irish so-called managers and their inability to people manage. Numbers they may be good at, but true leadership is non-existant. As ever, this will come home to roost at some point, as it seems to be doing now in cityjet.
Puddlehopper - "leave if you're not happy" sounds like the ryanair solution to gripes as well. Finally we seem, in ryanair, to realise that staying and fighting to improve matters might be a good option too. You can't keep running forever so its time to support whatever initiative IALPA may have. Remember, you'll still be flying long after your management are out to pasture and enjoying the spoils of your labour. And if cityjet are as stuck for pilots as is claimed, now's the time to hit them hard. The company won't get in trouble for treating you right, but it'll improve your lot a whole lot if it works out.
Ekka - I can tell you from a ryanair point of view why the cityjet situation might aggrieve people. It's the lack of reciprocality, the blatant bribing of the IAA, the undercutting of conditions, the blocking out of jobs for "natives". Nothing against the individuals concerned as people, however they are, unwittingly no doubt, perpetuating the problems just mentioned. Would it happen in the USA? No way, and that's as it should be. However, let's keep it fair. Ultimately no pilot is the winner here. You are merely aiding and abetting those who seek to destroy our profession.
They are a bunch of ex so called military pilots,who were bullied in the military,and thats all they know to do well.
Sounds like ryanair too. Funny how the slower and less armed the "military" aircraft is, the bigger the bully, the more useless and spineless the manager and the grander the war stories. With that in mind, remember that the pride of the Irish "Aer Corps" is the Cessna 172....*
* - Just for our American friends, the "military" pilots of the Aer Corps flew such grand machines as the C172, the King Air and the Marchetti. The average WW2 Spitfire squadron would have no trouble destroying the entire force in about 5 mins flat.