Standbyils, let us get one thing straight. Astraeus has operational control over astraeus operations. There is one commander and one operations control. The danger of such a half baked system is just as you have pointed out, lack of accountability. This is a wet lease in of astraeus under its own AOC and operational control/responsibility for its flights is its own. Aer Lingus operations have been around for 75 years, their reputation is not in question. We have built up a safety culture one can only generate by being around so long. The danger for Aer Lingus is that all that can be undone by one slip up by a competitor airline, its crew or operations whose providence we have no idea of.
But this is beside the point. Aer Lingus crew through IALPA has been begging Aer Lingus management to negotiate for the changing times for almost a year. IALPA got no response even to the offer of 1 months work for free. Meanwhile in the shadows Sean Coyle the CFO (trained under MO'L) spawned this plan to bust our union. It may suit Rainbow to crow from the side lines but anyone who has spent a career protected by a union and then on retirement supports those that undermines another is on morally thin ice and toxic indeed.