A first officer with whom I flew last week has a freind coming out the mob shortly and he has been invited for interview.As for numbers, I have it on good authority it will be more than people think and hopefully will go some way to ameliorate the feelings mentioned in my previous post.
At the end of the day, put a group of pilots in a room together and eventually they will get round to whinging about hours ,conditions,time to command (I myself waited 8 years-joined in 1990),balpa ,etc but I firmly believe if you could put all your problems in a brown paper bag and throw them in a hat then most (I guess not all) monarch pilots would make sure they got the same paper bag out.