Absoultely, the AEU Pilots flew their own plus the AL airframes, the AEU training dept was beefed up for A320,It follows that it is more cost effective to operate several a/c rather than one, it also follows that the AEU A320 waiting for ad-hoc and effectively being a reserve to the schedule flights is not as attractive, both in terms of crew numbers and revenues. AEU crews must be "at risk". AEU is represented by the IPF on a voluntary basis, the IPF believe in "working with airlines", and unlike IALPA will not bang the drum and threaten stikes etc, the AL pilots were never " at risk". Why don't Al just bugger off back to Dublin? because the GTW Routes are profitable! Maybe AEU should start up out of Dublin. No, I don't work at AEU.