It is wrong to focus on TCAS and the Horse as the source of our woes. They are hardly empowered to do anything. The real rotten apple in the cart is AAR. An almost criminal lack of knowledge combined with a vengeful and infantile attitude have resulted in a micromanagerial style that beggars belief. I know for a fact that he was personally on the phone to the engineer that grounded EDA (A380) when the bridge dropped on to it within minutes and the content of that call was typical of the nonsense that goes on. The max 12 days off rule came directly from him as a result of not being able to crew 2 short notice ad hoc charters. Never one to consider that by totally disrupting the schedulers work pattern (6 x 8 hrs instead of 4 x 12 hrs) he might have removed motivation of said scheduling crew the easiest solution is to apply a blanket rule to all us 2300 lazy pilots. etc etc etc Unless he goes there is no hope whatsoever of regaining any sort of trust between the management and flightcrew. There goes a flying pig (swine flew!)