Your own company 'did it to you'. AEU was just responding to a business opportunity, like several other companies were trying to do as well. It's business, get over it. Look to your own relationship with your own company now and try and see what you can do to rescue your employment opportunities. Stop transferring what you see as 'blame' to another company in another country. Who did this to you, and who is sharpening the broom? Having decided to take this direction, who 'changed their mind' and reneged on the contract? And why- it will be interesting to see this through to a conclusion. Chances are current AL pilots will be walking en masse long before AEU pilots.
Good luck if you think that FR is riding to the rescue. What do they need with 320s and vastly overpaid pilots? But that is their business. You lot don't seem to understand it was a standalone operation that impinged in no way on any AEU pilots. None of us knew what was going on, and had no interest in any way. That the operation is going will be unfelt as well. There are times when an industrial battle is lost. Your company is the one that is sticking it to you, and you know why. All this abuse aimed at merely a tool of your own Board's decision must be therapeutic, but really doesn't go any way to solving your problem. Don't waste your energy on me or AEU, you have your Stalingrad to face.
Last edited by Rainboe; 18th Dec 2009 at 20:17.