and giving us a single day over our miserly industry worst 108 days off would represent a restrictive and inflexible scheduling practice which would kill the model?
Sorry I don't buy it, not with the amount of unused stby. Come on Flybe, if being scrooge is part of your DNA, you can pay either industry bottom pay, or industry bottom lifestyle, not both. One needs to rise to compensate for the other. Surely you must realise that a significant number of people aren't prepared to put up with it anymore. These practices might have been acceptable when we were a small struggling minor player and it was all hands to the pump all the time just to survive. Try as you might there is going to be significant resistance from your workforce if you continue to attempt to roll out this exploitation model on the scale we operate now. This problem isn't going to go away.