I question the legality of a contract that is so onesided - if a company trains staff and can not provide the work that it trained the staff for then they can't make financial demands unless they provide those people with a job in that field elsewhere and pay them a salary - such would be the case for example if the airline would have been taken over with staff and sanatised to become operational again. The pilots kept their side of the deal and where the ones "sacked" by the company.
It is more a case of mismanagement and misjudgement of the Nationwide company as a whole - so they should be made accountable and for deceiving their staff and individuals of the state of the company. Truth is, those pilots shouldn't have been employed or type rated in the first place.
What a hoax!