I continue to read this thread with an increasing sense of disbelief and incredulity.
I cannot for the life of me understand why pilots - people whom I would assume are equipped with a brain - are so wiling to contribute to their own financial demise as a working group. Considering that pilots must work as closely knit team it seems a little ironic that many are willing to assist in the general downfall of pilots T's & C's.
Why should the most skilled and safety critical groups in an airline have to subsidise a profitable business? It makes no sense at all.
There will of course be those that feel they must justify their decisions, however poor those choices may be.
I can only conclude that Ryanair are cynically exploiting the vulnerable, and based on many of the posts here, the woefully naeive.