Look, black and white...from a retired ALPA dues-paying US airline major pilot who survived 3 furloughs and 2 strikes.....an expat contract pilot as are all CX pilots are free to hold out their services for what they feel to be an equitable and fair contract...the employer is also free to offer what they feel to be a fair and equitable employment agreement as they see fit based on current economic conditions....basically it SUCKS...all things accounted for..it is unreasonable to compare CX employment conditions with any major airline employment/collective bargaining agreements, as CX pilots are CONTRACTORS..expats...so like it or lump it these are the facts...I do not think it should be so, I feel that CX is making a huge mistake by picking a fight with employees..contract or otherwise, who have built the airline into what it is today...but the pilots are now are pissing into a fan so to speak...there must be a better way to fix this...and to all you ****** eighty-niners....you loosers with your chips on the shoulders...are ruining the whole industry with your persistant hard-headed approach to aviation...hope y'all get what you've got coming...and to the REAL CX pilots, hope y'all problems get solved for the mutual benefit of both groups...and to everybody who is applying for a job at CX amist the strife...get a life....