...hold airlines to ransom for ever! What delusional planet are you from?
You obviously enjoy making stupid but provocative statements oicur but they make you look foolish.
Dixon was obviously being "held to ransom" when he hauled in disgustingly vulgar amounts in both salary and bonuses whilst doing everything possible to savage staff wages whilst simultaneously belittling staff, and destroying the morale of a once proud airline.
Back to the land of the sane. Before the GFC airlines were desperate for pilots. Rex and Virgin were cancelling flights. The GFC is over and the shortage of pilots is far worse now. My advice to professional pilot groups is to fight tooth and nail to not only claw back what has been lost to line the pockets of the Dixon's of this world but also to regain some of the benefits that once were associated with the career of professional pilots before people with the attitudes of oicur tried to undermine it.
In simple oicur terms. Why do you think pilots were scarce before the GFC? Because nobody wanted to do it? The free-market allowed the underminers to have the T&C for all professional pilots cut to the degree that it was no longer viable being a professional pilot. However the same laws of supply and demand will now force employers to do anything to attract scarce pilots, otherwise their billion dollar aircraft investments stay grounded.
If we don't take full advantage of this situation we are mad.