As much as i wish that cruise F/O's were on better employment conditions, I can't help but feel that they're being used as unwitting pawns by an aging, dying organisation desperately trying to display a shred of legitimacy & virility in a desperate attempt to maintain their dwindling constituency. It's a big gamble; AFAP's loss will be coup de tat for VIPA. And then who will the AFAP represent? I can see Tiger pilots eventually uniting under their own representation. Then who? Reminds me of a song.
Hello AFAP my old friend.
You were useless to the end.
Whilst you were off away sleeping.
A brand new union was breeding.
And few die-hard disputers' were your only friends...right to the end.
You deserve the sound...of silence.
And so now you walk alone.
And soon you'll be bloody gone.
If it's the last thing we do.
The way you've treated us is how we'll treat you.
With indifference and disdain...the bloody same.
The sound of silence...