Talking about the bottles of water and cost drivers, here at AF, there used to be a time when recourse to such practices as (very) slow taxi and systematic TOGA thrust take-offs would get messages across. No strikes. No media. No
PR. Just engine maintenance reports of costs going through the roof.
VERY efficient, I can assure you !!!
One would require some backbone for that, something most orange button pushers seem to lack. Remember, unlike France, in the UK people prefer to stand politely in a queue before getting shafted.