"in my last airline." What a load of complete and utter rubbish. If you really work in Ryanair - then have a look at the netline ops screen and if you can count - you will find when I left STN crew room tonight there were 148 a/c operating across the network. Why do people invent this rubbish about the airline.
FR is taking 40 aircraft net from Apr 2008-2009. How do you make out there will be job losses. Read the website. Read Flight.
You should not be scared of Base Captains. The one who scares the trainers is PB. Quietly mass firing Jar 25 pilots, sending a blizzard of letters on sickness, constantly monitoring training, forcing pilots into contracting in their 100's. As I left STN at 10pm - he was bashing away at a keyboard - get a life you b....x. PB - There is more to life than a spreadsheet pilot hitlist.