Swanrider - it would have been a "grand idea" if the disgruntled VIPA pilots had elected to stay with the AFAP and work for improvements from within this organisation.
Better to be pissing from inside the tent out, rather than outside in - comes to mind!
Alas we now have multiple groups all vying to represent the Virgin Group pilots.
A situation the company could only wish for!
I will smile when the next group of disgruntled VIPA pilots chose to leave that organisation to organise their own new representative body in search of this industrial nirvana that some of our peers believe in.