I have also heard from a good source in Dublin that 250ish pilots have or are working their notice since December and there are more joining that figure every week, including me.
IMHO, I don't think RYR managment are going to offer didly squat to the crews, whos professionalism and hard work, make the bloody thing work! They will patch up the summer schedule by getting pilots to work days off and refuse leave to everyone. If they get really stuck, they will wet lease, then dig their heels in until new aircraft deliveries stop in 2012 and then they can plug the gaps with new cadets and DEC's from some back of beyond nation whos flag carrier just went down the ****ter. Its a race to the bottom for the airline that could easily and effeciently be one of the best airline pilot jobs around. Its like everything else in Ireland, they will sit and watch the system fail because of bloody mindedness, stupid politics and greed.
Shame!