I think Caulfield has a point. As long as you don't think that airlines owe you a career. Easyjet and Ryanair right now are doing their level best to devalue pilots and make our skills worth a quarter of what they ever were. It is part of the low cost model though and that's why companies like BMI Baby have a harder time - they pay people properly right from the start and pay for their TRs. It's pointles talking about unions etc. the people that are paying to fly by very nature are open to being screwed. They can't see the wood for the trees. They are probably all very good pilots but that's about it. They don't have a business mind, they don't have value for money or respect for money. They are infact probably in the main, uni leavers who don't understand the real world. So I strongly suggest people just accept it and have a sideline making the greater part of your income - the clever ones do.