757Flyer,
As I said in my own post, I wasn't at KLM at the time, so I don't know the exact details.
But mabey a good point, the UK pilots are represented by BALPA are they not? Why was is that BALPA didn't work together with the VNV to go head to head with KLM Cityhopper??
I've heard the argument before that BALPA were cut out of the loop by the VNV, this sounds more like shoddy representation by BALPA than bad pratice by the VNV.
Then again I wasn't there, so I can't really call this one...
Just my 2 EuroCents...