"Aer Lingus are like BA and American in the sense that they still have a legacy unionised workforce that rightly will not stand back and see it's terms and conditions destroyed. Who would?"
I really dont get this...the financial world is crumbling around us, people in many sectors are losing terms and conditions, pay cuts, job losses...why should airline workers be any different? Why should they 'rightly' hang on to their existing terms and conditions? If people want airlines to survive surely airline staff have also to take the pain..like everybody else right now..