Maverick,
3 ways: fight, fight, and fight.
I'm with you guys, not against.
bonernow,
The opportunity will come again, and Ryanair pilots will have to be ready when it comes.
"If the pilots would actually fight for themselves". That's right, nobody is going to fight for them. Not even many of Ryanair pilots will. So, there is no other way but fight, fight, and fight.
If your are planning on staying at Ryanair until you retire and not taking all this crap then you'll have to fight to fix the place.
How I'll do it:
Form an in-house union so you can deal with the problem of all the different bases. Affiliate that union to all the national unions, BALPA, SEPLA, etc.
Seek for professional advice.
Convince management that having a happy workforce is for the benefit of everybody; the company and the workforce. A happy workforce is more productive than an unhappy one.
And be ready to strike if you need to. Airplanes don't fly without pilots, and airlines don't make money with the airplanes on the ground.
The company has more to lose than the pilots, it is making a LOT of money
and management would not want a strike and lose money. The pilots can always go somewhere else.