Witnessing the action of the pilots at Aer Lingus this week standing up in solidarity to prevent a huge deteoration in working practices it is very hard to have any sympathy on the flight crew of Aer Arann. For every guy or gal willing to do something there 2 looking out for their own interests ( an age old problem I hear you say) however the refusal of many to join IALPA undermines not only their colleagues but themselves, they only would realise this in the event of an incident.it's crazy to think these idiots would allow themselves to be exploited, it's a damming indictment of the character of someone that would let this happen as they are destroying their own future. I doubt even most spineless wheasle would expect the company to support them if something went wrong, it would be a little late to go crawling to IALPA for help.