Maybe we need another thread for this issue? The question of what happens if and when the Fr aircraft pitch up to do the Aer Lingus flights is an interesting one. There will be no need to cross picket lines as the aircraft will simply fly in from elsewhere, pick up the PAx and depart for LHR or wherever. I can't see how this can be stopped.
Sad to say, there will be enough FR pilots to man these flights, ad infinitum. Remember, most of them are not even in a union and no matter how much they dislike the idea, they will do as they are told, as they always have done in the past.
RYR are probably in talks with easyJet management too, if the rumours about a strike in orangeland are true!
God help us all!