Well said jpb...agree totally. Am sick of fighting to get started with any decent airline and when I hear about this strike all I think is am I right to even have gone through what I did to get this far. I keep hearing the comments from ground staff and others like "here go the pilots throwing their toys out of their prams again" and "greedy" being mentioned again and again. Going on strike is doing nothing to improve the image of pilots being overpaid and doing nothing for huge salaries. What makes it worse is that all of a sudden Michael O'Leary is being touted as a hero for fighting the EI SNN decision and for calling his pilots peacocks and telling them to f$&k off every two years to put them back in their boxes.
This strike is counter productive if you ask me.