a certain, relatively small, amount of administration is required to achieve this gesture and administration does not come free
neither do pilots, yet some companies think that they SHOULD work for free! or extend - ever heard of unpaid overtime ?
I suppose the simple solution, and legal, of WORK TO RULE is just too ridiculous to contemplate? Unfortunately, the few REX pilots I know, are too conscientious to deliberately delay a flight to make a point. They are all instilled with a deep sense of professionalism, where "selling time, safely" is the ethos. They also realise that management will ALWAYS shift the lame back to them in the end, and the fact that THEY are the ones who have to deal with the public face to face makes it all the harder. in the end, the FACE of aviation - the pilot- will ALWAYS be the bad guy when management refuse to accept that times have changed, and that htye need to change as well.