A question for those who are convinced that staying put and silent in these bad times (105 million euros NET gain) is the way to go just because we have a job and a 18 years old F/O wouldn't have another chance elsewhere:
What will happen 2 years down the line when the last 737 arrives ad the pool of F/O's will be as deep as ever with lots of stby days and the majority of the workforce on BRK contracts?
De facto most F/O's already work sort of 2 ON 7 OFF because the number of STBY days greatly exceeeds the number of working days.
The upgrades will be for the brightest F/O's who joined the company at least 3/4 years before the end of the expansion and given the pretty high failure rate even amongst the brightest ones (most can't manually fly the airplane because they never did after flight school) they will have to put up with a lot of DEC readily available on the market (SkyEurope will shortly feed the RYR lines with plenty of experienced Capt.'s).
So again what's the perspective of those colleagues who think that doing nothing and being silent is the way to go?
What will your thoughts be when in 2012 you will moan about low flying hours, too many STBY's, low income and long way to upgrade and your colleague's answer will be "if you don't like it just leave"?