Not looking for sympathy
ASRAAM
Legal action could take years,bouncing back and forth from court to court.
Pilots know that they'll never get sympathy or support from Daily Mail readers unless it involves a safety issue so there's no point in looking for it.
Pilots in a company generally have a desire for that company to succeed in the long term because of the seniority system and therefore do not want to jeapordise that co's future.However people can eventually reach a limit with what they'll put up with and the dire level of managers within Virgin has brought that limit here.
The daily telegraph says about the VAA CEO in the fuel surcharge fixing case:
"Ridgway himself has admitted to the crimes the BA defendants denied – hardly the sort of thing the chief executive of any company, never mind an airline, should have on their CV."
Virgin wrote off £70 million to pay for that case (lawyers,compensation etc) so the cancellation of a few flights is not going to bring the company down but I suppose that's what they'll tell the rest of the employees to try to divide and rule.