There are quite a few permanent crew on RES in MEL. Also the rest of the base are getting awful rosters ( mainly SYD returns ). Even though our bid book shows lots of MEL overnights, you will see that the issue of MEL crew claiming we are ' stealing their flying ' is a silly argument. On closer inspection the trips are pattern of one so all they are doing is tagging one CNS crew member on to a full MEL crew.