Goondi,
Let me stress that I have the utmost repect for you and sympathy for your position.
Both you and Saint Paul Island have stated a belief that pilots who turn Cathay down now will be employed in the future.When pressed SPI retreated from that position and has been silent on the issue ever since.
To my mind the only way you could justify the ban is if you gave a concrete assurance that anyone who knocks Cathay back will be treated in the same way as a 49er, e.g the ban will only be lifted if they are employed along side the guys that were sacked.That is the only way you can "pay them back with interest".
If you recieve your job back because of the sacrifice of others, and then do not do at least as much for them, I would hope that look in the mirror gets just a little difficult.