This notion that we are all doomed due to the abundance of aero sexual 19year olds with millionaire parents is completely wrong and in fact I think irrelevant, so long as: There is a strong union with high membership that is around to say NO to cheap FO's NO to 2% basically NO to anything that isn't good for professional pilots.
No profession is safe from management greed and cost cutting; the only defence is a strong union especially in this day an age where there are always thousands of others willing to do your job for cheap.
Even if Flybe pilots start to leave today at the rate of 10per week it will take an age before the salaries went UP.
Yes people leaving will aid our cause in the long run but short term it amounts to nothing.
The ball is firmly in our court now and from the last balpa email it seems that balpa have got the message from us (either that or they played a smart move in the last vote).