My starters for 10? We are going to have to face facts that the business has changed, and can no longer afford some of its cost base.
We have to accept that those of us with mortgages may need to alter the term, and to lead a less extravagant lifestyle.
Our Union needs to negotiate, not just to say no. It must negotiate a package that allows us to carry on earning a salary, not throwing our toys out of the pram and having a strike which results in the airline shutting down, throwing us all out of work.
We cannot dump our passengers as the result of a long sector and demand 48 hours off. We cannot continue with our ludicrous allowances system. Why should a breakfast time flight be worth anything different to a lunchtime or a dinner time flight? We do we need high crew numbers on domestic shorthaul flights, when the product has changed significantly?
We need to accept change. We all have outgoings, but our cost is twice that of Virgin. Can we really afford, as a group, having CSD's earning close to £40,000 pa as basic pay before allowances, in a non-working role?
Times have changed. We must as well.