Not that it will make a blind bit of difference to most, but ALL of the Airbus line pilots employed by Astraeus for this shambles had no idea that the contract involved Aer Lingus. It was sold as a 12-month agency contract and the actual contract turned out to be open-ended. There was even chat from HR about moving over to a full-time Astraeus contract after the initial contract period. In short, Astraeus fed them a load of bull
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Yes, you could argue that the airbus guys could of walked when the Aer Lingus announcement was made. But if you had no other offers on the table, and the alternative was unemployment, what would you do (honestly)? It's not hard to believe that most didn't have any other offers at the time, or even now for that matter.