Yes you are correct in that I have not seen the latest video, I will do so with great interest. I dispute that my attitudes are entrenched in anything other than a real want to get this dispute resolved. It hurts me when I hear management types saying 'what dispute?' They base that position on the good OTP and better bottom line at the moment. I wish they could grasp how much better the bottom line could be with a settled and more content pilot body. By the same token, I am sorry that the AOA cannot find a way to start the communication process with the company again. It would be difficult to meet the conditions apparently imposed by the company but it is probably the only real way forward and the only way to get some or all of the 49ers back with us. I am not against the litigation processes currently underway other than a personal dislike of lawyers and the growth of the litigious society we seem to live in. I just don't think they will be anything other than just hollow victories whoever wins the cases. I am only involved in the 'process' to the extent that I verbalise my feelings to anyone polite enough to listen. I have no feelings of angst and hold no feelings against those involved in the dispute on either side. If I have a fear it is that should the dispute escalate from the AOA side then the only possible response from the company would be to terminate more pilots - a lot more. I am happy that the AOA has been very circumspect in this area and will continue to be so. Thank you for furthering this very reasonable thread. There was a quite military style thread a little while ago which included quotes from various acknowledged military strategists which I found very illuminating. To paraphrase that, the most important maxim is the selection and maintenance of the aim. Maybe both sides have lost sight of that. Good luck to you.