In the end supply and demand will always dictate the price of any commodity.
The question is, how far will you be able to push your hand before your bluff's called?
And when your bluff is called, what will you hold?
Or will you simply.........fold?
Airline management must realise that while they can learn from the past, the past does not hold the key to the future. What happened before does not dictate the way things will be.
The market has changed.
In the past the SA Airforce, contract pilots, Airlink, SAX and Nationwide were a vast pool of pilots to be used when you need a couple of drivers.
Not anymore.
Soon your hand will be called.