OBKI
Sounds like you enjoy the fact that tour ops can play with your future, leaving you each summer wondering what the next will bring. You cant force passengers to book, granted, but if tour ops could get the flights flown cheaper they wouldn't necessarily use to tcx planes. Expansion was always limited as all our flying was carried out by MYT, Excel etc etc cheaper especially LH.
"we'll have to wait and see what the cleaners say in 6 months" quite possibly and I hope for all that Charter doesnt deteriorate any further into a P2F / Contractor pit.
There is no loyalty between tour ops and the airline. (Sad but true). Have you ever been to one of the tour ops conferences as a airline rep?