Flying Clara
I think you have much greater problems than the hold pool! Your willingness to work for nothing is admirable, and I’m sure it shall win you many points with the company accountants!
But in the long term it only serves to degrade the already battered terms and conditions for the rest of us, and whilst you say now that you are happy with the reduced salary, or to turn up and pay the airline to sit in its seat the rest of us are not and are fighting at every corner not to have more taken away from us! I only hope you see this, albeit now or in a couple of years when you cannot afford the house that you wish for your family to grow up in because you are too busy paying off your BAA car parking bill!