I too will drink to the budgies demise.
But I can't help recall a statement by an old 89er at the back of an AOA
meeting around 1992. The president finished saying " if we stick together
we cannot lose" the old Ansett Checkie mumbled " where have I heard this
before"
It was Hawke and company who provided the circumstances, the
heroes who crossed the line were the true villains.
The same thing happened in CX early 1990's, some guys in the AOA
basically crossed the line by being gutless and not doing a damn
thing when contract compliance was biting.
The AOA remains a joke to this day.