If this was a movie, the audience would have walked out a long time ago and asked for their money back.
The film title is "Industrial Action at Flybe?" and here we are on Page 36 of a whole pile of important posturing and rhetoric and absolutely nothing has happened.
There never will be any industrial action at Flybe.
Before you all start shouting at me, I will tell you what taking industrial action actually means.
I was based at JFK at the time and the paychecks did not arrive on time. One crew removed two mainwheels from a 707. Another crew took one of the INS units out of a DC-10 and took it home for safe keeping. A nosewheel went from a DC-8.
Etc. Etc.
The paychecks were flown north from Miami in a Learjet faster than you can ever imagine and the whole problem was resolved in a matter of hours.
Can you imagine this happening in this situation?
No.
You and BALPA will still be talking about this in three year's time and, in the meantime, the management will be laughing all the way to the bank.