Well done Willie, you shut down the airline for a week and a cost in the region of €15m. That does not in include the costs of litigation, which will ensue. It also does not include the lost revenue from pax who realise that you don't give a damn about them.
What have you achieved. You sought to break IALPA and throw our working arrangements in the bin, leaving pilots to operate to non-existant IAA limits. This would have meant 10 hour turnarounds and pilots having fewer days off than 9-5ers. You achieved a one hour reduction 'n minimum rest to 12 hours and 2 fewer days off per year. Six times a year you can request our cooperation to operate a 10 hour turnaound. How many times will we oblige?
Was it worth it? IALPA is now more united than at any time in its history. You have had to reinstate our 7 suspended colleagues with back pay. Your attempt to lock us out without pay has been deemed illegal. Our working conditions with their minor alterations are now enshrined in a Labour Court ruling. We have held the line and now we will advance it.
Was it worth it? You have shown yourself for what you are. Not the evil genius we had built you up as, but a second rate bully with the strategic vision of a demented baboon.
Now it's back to us and our frontline colleagues to try and repair some of the damage to our reputation, if it isn't too late already.
Some survival plan.