Hand solo - If someone had said a decade ago that China would be the dominant world economy, that the US and the UK would have to go to them to raise money, you'd have laughed.
The pilots may not be around this year - but what about 5 years time? Who wouldn't lay a bet that India and China's booming economies don't see a huge surge in the amount of trained pilots (like thousands of software developers being trained in the last 5 years and now working here) - I assume there is good money to be made in it as a career choice so I would fully expect the numbers wanting to train to increase in the developing worlds.
My point is that we all like to think we are a 'special case' - but the fact is no one can afford to sit in an ivory tower and say "not me - I'm special"
Just because things change in a way you don't want them to, doesn't make the situation any less real - whether you strike or not, whether you get what you want or not, someone always ends up paying with their job
