Ryanairdontcare - too cryptic for me mate. Maybe try speaking normally like you were talking to a friend or something. That way we could all understand what you were trying to say.
A very interesting discussion. There are many people stuck in the past here like Stan. All very sad as it was at easyJet (allegedly) between 1997 and 2004, that is yesterday's news. The easyJet he left is not the one that exists now and consequently we still have a queue of Ryanair pilots awaiting interviews when the recruitment tap switches on again. There was a time when working for Ryanair seemed a better option than working for easyJet but that is no longer the case, and has not been so for some years. The key thing about that period is that it was only when large numbers of people joined BALPA that the battle could be won. As Stan has rightly observed it was a difficult time but that has dramatically turned in the last 5 years, largely due to BALPA's efforts. The tragedy of our situation is that we are well into the process of reinventing the wheel - there are still people out there who think that 1% is too much and that because things have become good they will remain so. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Ryanair pilots are discovering, if you let managers 'manage' without the checks and balances afforded by collective representation you get totally unacceptable practices. We at easyJet will also face the same problem if we do not maintain our support for BALPA. It is a warning to us all.