Exactly right,
That would get the public offside real quick.
If Joe/Joanne public's flight is late because the engineers are making sure his/her aircraft is safe for flight they won't hate us quite as much !!
My gut feeling is someone such as John Vincent will take DC to one side and explain that his 'customer' will take a very dim view of not having half it's fleet available for use and then DC will come up with some sort of sweetener to save his own skin.
having said that, I can't see DC or MH etc surviving much past this dispute. It simply should never have gotten this far....
We WILL very likely NOT get more than 3%.....but we might get lots of other bonuses, which are all pointless unless those two clauses are removed!