I have just flown with a training captain who told us how the company are going to break any strike, he was confident that the information was correct as it had apparently come from the new crewing manager. The company are going to train up a huge number of office staff with the very minimum training and use them to replace any striking crew.
As long as the union do odd days rather than blocks, they are confident that they can keep flights going. However, it seems a number of pilots are aware of this and are alarmed at the prospect of having to fly with crew with minimum training and no experience to the point where they will be writing to the CAA and newspapers to warn them the dangers of such a situation.
Would the company seriously risk lives to keep flights going through a strike? How can a PA operate a defib? How can someone from marketing organise a restraint? What about a major fire on-board?
If they are going to put profit before safety then our managment are worse than we first thought.