Not a pre-emptive strike by management, aimed at the heart?!
All the ingredients are there:
- recent announcement of increasing profits - to try to instil confidence in this management;
- a proven beligerent, confrontationist (rather than negotianory) management attitude;
- an overall percentage decrease in the number of AOA CX pilot members;
- a recent (re)election of AOA principal office bearers, signalling "more of the same" wrt trying to achieve a negotiated settlement to maintain pilots's conditions;
- a current surplus of airline pilots.
Would you put it past them?