Good luck VA. The concept is great and there is room for competition.
As for the salaries and employment conditions on offer, I hope you fall on your faces in HQ. WHEN the global market improves again in 2010 there will be a serious/critical aircrew shortage (there already was last year and the current hiatus is only making matters worse as old guys will leave the industry forever but new pilots won't come in).
The record global aircraft orders of the last few years will need pilots to fill seats (unless the a/c go straight to the desert).
Treating pilots like crap from day 1 is not a good recipe for long-term success. Look forward to VA aircrew resignations in 2010 (straight to EK) and flight cancellations - much the same as
VB last year.
This needs a SWIFT resloution (too subtle?).