markri
Your comparison with BL is entirely appropriate. I recently flew out of T5 with a colleague who had originally started his working life at Austin Rover. He said there were indeed some stark similarities between then and now!
My problem is, that there is precious little I can do to halt the (terminal?) decline of this once proud company. All I can achieve is to do my very best for our paying customers IN SPITE of the incompetence with which I am 'managed'!
As far as our strike is concerned, I believe I am faced with 'Hobson's choice'. I do not want to strike. (there hasn't been a pilot's strike in 30 years, AND BALPA have a track record of finding 'partnership' solutions) Nobody can seriously accuse BALPA of militancy!
However, I personally am prepared to pull the roof in over Open Skies (the airline) I believe my future will in any case lie elsewhere if I do not resist! There WILL be casualties, and I am absolutely prepared to accept that could include me.
Does that make me a 'dinosaur' from another era?
Anyone who thinks it does, just needs to explain to me what else I can do.
Other than just bend over and take it of course, which isn't for me I'm afraid!