Oneworld you don't really get it do you? BFS based pilots will eventually be used to do rotations into Dublin and Cork. The situation will then arise where there will be an overcapacity of pilots in Dublin. They will either be threatened with redundancy or offered "new" contracts which will bear a remarkable resemblance to the BFS ones.
only problem with that argument is the company are saying it def won't happen. and by the sounds of it, they'd be wiling to sign an agreement to that effect.
but what you're really missing here is the wider point, pci. changes to the dub base are coming anyway and were coming long before anyone mentioned the belfast word. by the time anyone actually transfers between dub and belfast chances are the stark differences in the t&c won't be as stark anymore...what EI have essentially tried to do is implement their entire pilots' pci wish list in belfast. pci is coming to dub too, but they probably won't get it through in as pure a form. as far as i can see, pci is what this dispute is really about, not belfast. if the pilots could be a bit clearer about what it was they were actually objecting to, and they have been appalling unclear, they might do better in the public support stakes.