Easymoney, St Patrick - right on the money. The big challenge is trying to convince the unaware that they have no chance whatsoever of a good job in the future
as things stand.
The even bigger challenge is to convince those who actually think that fr is a good future. These innocent folks are mainly trainers who will shortly be on mickos hitlist, now that he has destroyed FO pay. They don't think it will happen to them, so the $hitstorm, when it does hit them will be even more of a surprise. Considering FR have never ever honoured a single agreement with any group of pilots, quite what they're basing their conviction that fr actually value them is quite beyond me and plenty of others.
The upside is, that, when they are targetted, the shock should turn them into enthusiastic REPA supporters.
However I believe we are more than equal to the challenge and union recognition and the RPA WILL happen. FR themselves admit this, what we finally need is for the remaining unconvinced pilots to admit this to themselves. Then we will have the confidence to move forward with conviction. We're almost there, not quite, but very soon.
When that days happens, the fr pilot group will finally be able to look the rest of our colleagues in the eye and say "we fixed what we destroyed."
But if it really is that bad, can somebody explain
how this deal (preferably from somebody that voted in favour) was
accepted in 5 bases out of 16??!!
Various reasons. Naievty, lack of interest, lack of information. This list is endless. Astonishing as it may seem, some people genuinely couldn't be bothered doing the numbers and/or seek proper detailed information. I'm convinced anyone that did voted against. How these people who just couldn't be bothered about their career and personal wellbeing is beyond me. But out there they are. And flying jet aeroplanes
It is likely anyway that if fr hadn't used some good old-fashioned methods of disrupting the vote, the vote against would have much much higher.