Very hard to be constructive and helpful, a CSD the other day was very upset, he'd been to see BASSA about the lack of work for them and wanted a solution.
The rep was very agressive towards him, he was left in no uncertain terms as to what happens if you don't follow the BASSA way.
Look at that meeting at the race course, 100% votes for everything, no one dared question or speak against them.
Try it yourself, go see the BASSA people in their offices and give your "reasonable" suggestions, let us all know how you get on.
Very hard for you all.
I also here lots of things along the lines of "we are happy to work harder but don't want to lose money".
Very admirable especially for shorthaul with the 500 hour averages.
Then suggest fixed links and its "oh no couldn't possibly do those, we'd be very tired".
Suggest not having 6 crew to give out nuts on a domestic and it's "oh no, you don't know how hard it is, we have drinks to serve as well.
Suggest perhaps 15 crew on a jumbo is a tad too many and it's "oh no, how tired we would all be, what about crew rest and passenger service will suffer".
The savings have to be made one way or another but quite how 14,000 different minded crew and a stubborn union will sort a solution that makes you all happy I have no idea.
Good luck though.