Muttley
I tend to disagree with you about it being our loss.
Those meeting have always been a waste of time. At least by walking out on AAR it sent a clear message to him that we wont tolerate his BS. Sure we still get shovelled the BS, but that is for management benefit, not ours. It was no coincidence that Maurice stopped being invited to those meetings. He listened and changed something, he has not been back and neither has any change been effected since. I dont think for a minute that if everyone had sat nicely and had said nice things to our glorius leaders, then things would be any different now. They would have done the same !!!!! anyway. They were just P*ssed off that they came to spread the propoganda and no one swallowed it.
The meetings are not intended to facilitate change they are just a vehicle for management to pretend to be listening while giving them an opportunity to identify trouble makers.
Not until we have proper representation, and those representative get to sit around a table and have meaningful dialogue with management, will it ever be worth attending a "pilot to pilot" meeting.
By the way what is this "pilot to pilot" crap anyway. Its "pilot to management" or at best "pilot to a guy who used to fly short haul and now thinks he is a long haul expert".
Rant over
V