It is time pilots stood up for themselves and their lifestyles and start showing how far the airlines will get without them, not very far......!!
Isn't the grim reality that for as long as being an airline pilot remains a sought-after profession, there may always be those willing to work for sh
t t&cs just to have a job, or rather just to be able to say they are a professional pilot. I don't agree with it, but imagine this is a reality that airline management feel they can exploit.
For industrial action like this to work (absent a successful legal case being brought by the current VS pilots) solidarity has to exist not just within an airline but across the profession. And not just across those professionals who have a job, but all those qualified and ready to work.
That, I fear, is a step too far for the aviation industry in 2010. We will in a world where, regrettably, the lowest common denominator tends to win.